Linking/mouting a direcotry?

abcdefg · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject: Linking/mouting a direcotry?

Hi,

I have two users on my computer and both play enemy-territory. et downloads maps to ~/.etwolf/ but I want that both users use the same directory so the maps doesn't have to be downloaded twice.

If I could mount a directory I would do this

EliasP · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

1.) Create a group (e.g. etgame)
2.) Add all users you want to share the gamedata to this group
3.) chown -R /home/user1/.etwolf
4.) chmod -R g+rw /home/user1/.etwolf
5.) ln -s /home/user1/.etwolf /home/user2/.etwolf

Should work now.

Greetings

Elias P.

abcdefg · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks, this works
David

DarrenM · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:23 am Post subject:

Except they were probably both in the 'users' group already so all you had to do was make it group rwx then link it.

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

if you had 3 users, OR you wanted to make it a more logical fix, you could:

1) mkdir /opt/etwolf
2) chmod a+wrx /opt/etwolf
3) ln -s /opt/etwolf /home/user1/.etwolf
4) repeat for other users