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Muhnamana
Asked: 2012-03-09 16:06:38 +0800 CST

Samba user can't access external drive

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If my external drive is showing up in /home/user1/.private, would another user not be able to view this? See link for example -----> Example

user1@UB-DT2-SERVER:~$ df -lhT
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext4    912G  3.9G  861G   1% /
udev      devtmpfs    3.0G  4.0K  3.0G   1% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs    1.2G  1.4M  1.2G   1% /run
none         tmpfs    5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none         tmpfs    3.0G  116K  3.0G   1% /run/shm
/home/user1/.Private
      ecryptfs    912G  3.9G  861G   1% /home/user1
/dev/sr1       udf    615M  615M     0 100% /media/WD SmartWare
/dev/sdf1  fuseblk    466G  101M  466G   1% /media/MyPassport2

How can my external drive be mounted for all users to access?

Could it be automounted on boot?

mount automount 11.10 external-hdd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There are two main possible problems:

    1. The user doesn't have Unix access to the /media/ directory. The easiest way to check this is to just do ls -ld on them and see what the permissions are, or have them log in locally and try it.

    2. They have unix access but Samba is blocking it. Easiest way to find out if this is the case is to look in the Samba logs for messages saying so, and then change it through whichever means you've set up Samba. (Editing the config files, a gui, etc.)

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  2. For linux permissions:

    groupadd SHARE

    useradd -g SHARE - username

    useradd -g SHARE - otherusername

    then on the dir:

    chown whateverowneryouwant:SHARE DIR

    chmod 764

    The above will create a group, then you add your users in. Change the ownership to add the group, then set the files to rwxr-xr--. (You can change the XXX to w/e but the xXx is for group)

    For Samba, though i think its linux permissions issue. it should just be: smbpasswd -a USER

    They then set the samba password, then add the user on the samba.config

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