This option, which has the synonym
directory, indicates the pathname at the root of the file or printing share. You can choose any path on the Samba server, so long as the owner of the Samba process that is connecting has read and write access to that directory. If the path is for a printing share, it should point to a temporary directory where files can be written on the server before being spooled to the target printer (
/tmp and
/var/spool are popular choices). If this path is for a disk share, the contents of the folder representing the share name on the client will match the content of the directory on the Samba server. For example, if we have the following disk share listed in our configuration file:
[network]
path = /export/samba/network
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
And the contents of the directory
/usr/local/network on the Unix side are:
$ ls -al /export/samba/network
drwxrwxrwx 9 root nobody 1024 Feb 16 17:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 1024 Feb 16 17:17 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 1024 Feb 16 17:17 quicken
drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 1024 Feb 16 17:17 tax98
drwxr-xr-x 9 nobody nobody 1024 Feb 16 17:17 taxdocuments
Then we should see the equivalent of
Figure 4.5 on the client side.
