Permission denied when accessing SMB from raspberry pi

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Hey guys,
I’d like to apologize in advance; i’m kind of a Linux noob.

So, I hooked up my external HDD to my Vero4k, works great. But I want to use my Raspberry Pi as a torrent box to download straight to the external HDD connected to my Vero4k.
I set up a SMB share and that works fine when I try to connect to it from my Windows PC; log in with osmc:osmc and i’m in, I can edit everything freely… but with my raspberry pi not so much. I’m able to mount the SMB drive and I can open everything just fine, but I don’t have any write permissions, it tells me “Permission Denied”.

I’ve used my limited knowledge to log into the drive through the Fstab, which i assume went well, since I can see all the folders/files. I’ve tried to chown/chmod 777 it through the Vero4k and the Pi but i cannot get it to work.

Thank you guys in advance!
If something’s not clear, please let me know!

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Well let’s start with your fstab line you used on the Pi and also to confirm you use OSMC on the Pi or something else?

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Thanks for the quick reply!

FSTAB:

//192.168.0.116/media/HDD /media/HDD cifs username=osmc,password=osmc,defaults 0 0

I’m using OSMC on my vero4k, the pi runs debian, and i’d like to turn that into a torrentbox!

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So do you have a user/group osmc/osmc on your pi?
Otherwise you may want to try to add uid=<local user>,gid=<local group> to your fstab.

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I’ll try that when i get home from work tonight! Thanks again for your quick response!

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I just tried running the following through the fstab:

//192.168.0.116/Externe\040HD /media/HDD cifs uid=112,gid=65534,defaults 0 0

It prompts Password for root@//192.168.0.116/HDD:

to which i tried entering both the pi’s password for root and the one for osmc. Either returns
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)

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You not only added the uid and gid but you also removed username and password. Why did you do that?

Edit: Please read these:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/samba

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I sure did, my bad!
I placed it back and it didn’t prompt for a password (as expected) but im not able to write on the HDD.

//192.168.0.116/HDD /media/HDD cifs uid=112,gid=65534,username=osmc,password=osmc,defaults 0 0