[Solved] - SMB Shares - Issues with SMB shares

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Hi,
Able to access the SMB shares using the osmc user. All the shares are visible and usable using the “osmc” user.

Now, would like to do two things, 1) Setup a public folder, which anyone is able to login without any user/ pwd. and 2) Add a guest user with read only access to some of the folders.

Tried to add a guest user, and added it to the smb.
sudo useradd guestuser m -G users
sudo passwd guestuser
sudo smbpasswd -a guestuser

Below is what the smb.conf file.

osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
usershare allow guests = yes
#security=share
security=user
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = no
unix extensions = no
lock directory = /var/cache/samba
load printers = no
printing = bsd
printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = yes
log level = 1

[osmc_home]
browsable = yes
read only = no
valid users = osmc
path = /home/osmc

[public]
browsable = yes
read only = no
valid users = guestuser
path = /media/wdHddRishi/Data/share/

I see all the shares in the network, but able to login only to osmc_home using the osmc user. Any help would be appreciated.

FYI - Using the RPi2 RC and installed smb from the app store.

2

What are the file permissions of this folder?

Pleasae provide output of;
ls -al /media/wdHddRishi/Data/share

3

osmc@osmc:/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share$ pwd
/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share
osmc@osmc:/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share$ ls -la
total 4
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 0 Mar 19 22:26 .
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 4096 Mar 7 13:28 …
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 0 Mar 19 22:26 Public
osmc@osmc:/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share$ chmod +777 Public/
osmc@osmc:/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share$ ls -la
total 4
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 0 Mar 19 22:26 .
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 4096 Mar 7 13:28 …
drwx------ 1 osmc osmc 0 Mar 19 22:26 Public
osmc@osmc:/media/wdHddRishi/Data/share$

4

Somehow, unable to change the permissions also.

5

Was able to figues this out, posting what the issues were.

  1. Was not able to change the file/folder permissions of the mounted drive - figured out that it was because it was mounted as a default ntfs drive. Changed the mounting by editing /etc/fstab
  1. Once this was done, it was a breeze, change the permissions and then add new user with read only access. My smb.conf file looks same as I had mentioned above.