Sharing a folder with other users on the same machine (SOLVED)

Hi,
Recently, I've been sharing my computer with my dad. I don't want him to use my account, since I have a lot of secret files and bookmarks on my profile. However, I would like to share all my music with him. What I did was to set the permission of my Music directory to 777 and using root create a symbolic link from my own account to his account. But then when I log into his account, it says the folder is corrupt.
Then I created a symbolic link from my music directory to /media/ and set the permission to 777. Again I tried to see if I can access it from my dad's account and got the same error.
What's the best way of creating common folders between users in a linux machine?
Note that, since I use Amarok, I don't want to move my Music to somewhere else, because it will mess up with the database info of songs.
EDIT: I solved the problem by using mount instead of symbolic links.
You have to issue the following command:
mount --bind /home/name/music /media/music/
Of course you have to execute this command whenever you boot the computer. Just place this command in rc.local and you're good.
Thanks
Last edited by mohtasham1983 (2009-11-05 22:06:03)

grey wrote:If I wanted to share it between different users, I wouldn't put it inside one particular users home directory. Just use a reasonable place that is not used by the system, like /usr/local/data, /var/shared or so, give it the desired permissions and that's it.
you are absolutely right and i recommend this as well.
grey wrote:The link will probably not work, because in order to read /home/yourname/music, you need to be able to read /home/yourname. That is even true if root created the link.
that is true for symbolic links, not bind mounts. a bind mounted dir doesn't care about the parent directories because your not traversing to it through a link, it's just 'there'. this is how i put folders under my ~ out on my http server.

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