Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even read/post there. > It's been decades since I had anything to do with newsgroups. > > Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. > you are

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 12 dec 20, 11:39:26, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I changed the mount to /music, owned by root, but with 777 perms. As a > guest, samba won't permit her to write to the directory. The permissions of the underlying directory are irrelevant, except to prevent regular users from writing by

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 09:15:22AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > For what it's worth, I drafted this last night but couldn't send it - > > kicking self as I knew most of you would be active whilst I was asleep: > > > > This

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 10:45:01AM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I made various minor changes (like changing the mount to /music) and now > > the problem appears to be resolved. As is sometimes the case, the > > problem gets solved without you

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > For what it's worth, I drafted this last night but couldn't send it - > kicking self as I knew most of you would be active whilst I was asleep: > > This article seems to confirm my thought that macOS supports sshfs: > >

Re: [OT] Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Joe
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:14:49 +1100 David wrote: > > In case you don't know, the 'pi' user can be renamed to whatever you > want, so that might be an alternative way to reach your goal instead > of creating a separate 'paulf' user. > I didn't know what other undocumented quirks might apply to

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 dec 20, 17:52:03, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I do use mutt, and have downloaded nn, trn4, tin and slrn to try them > out. I'll pay special attention to slrn. Thanks. Neomutt has built-in NNTP support. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 8:34 am, Paul M Foster wrote: I made various minor changes (like changing the mount to /music) and now the problem appears to be resolved. As is sometimes the case, the problem gets solved without you knowing how you solved it. Perhaps the restart of samba? Or do you mean you

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 5:01 am, Paul M Foster wrote: I have my doubts that there is an active RPi list on which such a question could be answered. But it is, after all, Samba, and you've already seen the smb.conf. Try here: https://discourse.littlebird.com.au/ It is run by our local importer, and the

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 10:01 am, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 12/12/20 6:24 am, deloptes wrote: I heard it would work with some 5+ kernel from debian. My experience with the RPi4B was negative, because of the kernel (4.19) in buster. I ended up using the Raspberry Kernel in Debian. My almost stock raspiOS

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/12/20 6:24 am, deloptes wrote: I heard it would work with some 5+ kernel from debian. My experience with the RPi4B was negative, because of the kernel (4.19) in buster. I ended up using the Raspberry Kernel in Debian. My almost stock raspiOS Pi3 & Pi4 both updated the kernel to 5.4

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:52:02PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:24 -0500 > > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > > > > > > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > > > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even

[OT] Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 23:19, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 05:35:37PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 11/12/20 1:42 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > On boot, the system only knows paulf as a user. When it boots and mounts > the drive, it mounts it under the pi user. I don't

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Joe wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:24 -0500 > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even read/post > > there. It's been decades since I had anything to do with

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Joe
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:34:24 -0500 Paul M Foster wrote: > > OMG. That's not an email list. It's a newsgroup. I didn't know anyone > used these anymore. I'll have to figure out how to even read/post > there. It's been decades since I had anything to do with newsgroups. > Claws-mail can do it,

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 08:19:00PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> > >> There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read > >> already: > >> > >> 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > It is perfectly feasible to run your Raspberry Pi on (relatively) stock > Debian - https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi with a bit of luck. I heard it would work with some 5+ kernel from debian. My experience with the RPi4B was negative, because of the kernel (4.19) in

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> >> There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read >> already: >> >> 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but there is also dedicated list >> where it could be answered more efficiently)

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read > already: > > 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but there is also dedicated list > where it could be answered more efficiently) I have my doubts that there

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Ok, what about permissions for the /media and /media/pi directories? > > > > > > This is likely my last attempt to help with your troubleshooting as I > > have only limited and less than recent experience

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Ok, what about permissions for the /media and /media/pi directories? > > > This is likely my last attempt to help with your troubleshooting as I > have only limited and less than recent experience with Samba. +1 and also is important to know what the exact issue is,

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 dec 20, 07:23:16, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:11:57AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:11:57AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. > > Please show the output of 'mount' and 'ls

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 05:35:37PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 11/12/20 1:42 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. Anything > > on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy by default. I > > couldn't see a reason to change

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 dec 20, 21:42:49, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. Please show the output of 'mount' and 'ls -ld' for /media/pi/music Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 11/12/20 1:42 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: For various reasons, I've set the perms on this mount as 777. Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy by default. I couldn't see a reason to change it, if I set the permissions appropriately. G'day Paul pi being the default

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread john doe
On 12/11/2020 5:47 AM, Paul M Foster wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy by default. I'm pretty sure that it's not the case. It's a matter of the OS you run on your Pi, not the fact that

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy > > by default. > > I'm pretty sure that it's not the case. It's a matter of the OS you run > on your Pi, not the fact that it's a Raspberry Pi. > > IIUC what

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:09:20PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy > > by default. > > I'm pretty sure that it's not the case. It's a matter of the OS you run > on your Pi, not the fact that it's a Raspberry Pi. > > IIUC what

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anything on a Raspberry Pi gets mounted in the /media/pi hierarchy > by default. I'm pretty sure that it's not the case. It's a matter of the OS you run on your Pi, not the fact that it's a Raspberry Pi. IIUC what you're saying is that you're not running plain Debian but some other OS and

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 01:25:56AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > > Any idea why contents are not showing up, and what can be done to remedy > > this? > > could be permissions on /media/pi/music ? > > I use it here as domain controller - only dedicated users - not sure about

Re: Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread deloptes
Paul M Foster wrote: > Any idea why contents are not showing up, and what can be done to remedy > this? could be permissions on /media/pi/music ? I use it here as domain controller - only dedicated users - not sure about the guest settings, but the mount point is strange. Somewhere it said

Guest Samba shares

2020-12-10 Thread Paul M Foster
I've got a Pi with a hard drive connected to it with music on it. I've got SSH configured so I can admin the box headless. I've got FTP configured so I can upload music. Now I'm working on Samba. My wife has a Mac which understands Samba. She can scan the LAN on the Mac and see the music share