Samba auto-mount shares with multiple users

[DBMandrake]

Unfortunately there’s currently no easy way to do this. See the following thread for an explanation of how the automount shares are set up:

Samba automount template not working

The reason it’s not working with a different username is because the user permissions for the automount shares are not actually set in smb.conf. The automount shares are created dynamically on the fly using the samba ‘net usershare add’ command which is run by udisks-glue when removable disks are detected. This is controlled by /etc/udisks-glue.conf: You’ll see at the end of the line $(hostname)\osmc:f - this gives the osmc user full read/write access. Anyone else won’t have access. When I d…