On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Nicholas Oleksinski <[email protected]> wrote: > I just installed Samba on my Karmic box and I am trying to share a USB drive > that has been mounted to /media/Personal1. > 1) It is owned by noleks (me) > 2) Its permissions are 700, unchangeable (?)
To change default permissions, you'd have to consult your automounter docs. As most usb sticks are fat32, they don't actually have permissions, so what you are seeing is a posix permission emulation layer in the vfat fs driver, which is controlled by mount flags. However, and a bigger problem, is that when you make a share on a mount point and the connect to it, smbd will tend to lock the mount point and you won't be able to cleanly unmount the disk without manually killing the smbd process that has it locked. What I have done in the past is to share out /media with the "force user" option so that access to the usb disks is done as my desktop login user. As I recall, this locks /media but not /media/Personal1 so that issue is resolved. The force user option is a lot easier to deal with than automounters. And sharing /media means all your usb drives will work without adding a share for each one. you also get cd/dvd-rom sharing. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
