Hi Chris
An update...
Sharing /media worked, but I still cannot access /media/Personal1, which is
actually a Western Digital portable HD.
I can see all the directories in /media. I made a test folder called
public, chmod 777, and I can edit files in there from my client.
The Disk Utility reports that the drive is Partition Type HPFS/NTFS, Type:
NTFS.
Not sure how to figure out what Ubuntu is using for automount...
On , [email protected] wrote:
Hi Chris:
Thanks for the help. I will investigate the automounter documentation re:
filesystem types and permissions.
Can you help me understand what "Force user" mode is?
I am going to try to share /media with "User" authentication mode.
Thanks again
On , Chris Weiss [email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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> permissions, so what you are seeing is a posix permission emulation
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> layer in the vfat fs driver, which is controlled by mount flags.
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>
>
> However, and a bigger problem, is that when you make a share on a
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> mount point and the connect to it, smbd will tend to lock the mount
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> point and you won't be able to cleanly unmount the disk without
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> manually killing the smbd process that has it locked.
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>
>
> What I have done in the past is to share out /media with the "force
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> user" option so that access to the usb disks is done as my desktop
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> login user. As I recall, this locks /media but not /media/Personal1
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> 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.
>
>
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