Thanks for the quick response. I am a little bit confused. The USB drive was formatted in NTFS and has a few hundred music albums on it. Does it mean that I have to reformat my USB drive? On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 3:14?AM Rowland Penny via samba < samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:08:03 -0600 > cha charle via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > > It is using NTFS.Thanks. > > > > Thought so, that is your problem, I suggest you use a Linux filesystem > (ext4 or btrfs etc ) > > Rowland > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:38:03 -0600 cha charle via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> Thanks for the quick response. I am a little bit confused. The USB > drive was formatted in NTFS and has a few hundred music albums on it. > Does it mean that I have to reformat my USB drive? >NTFS is not a native Linux filesystem and the Linux tools (chmod, chown etc) cannot set Linux permissions on it, so your choices are a bit limited, you either plug it back into a Windows machine and share it from there, or you reformat it (after backing up the contents somewhere) with a Linux filesystem. This comes up quite often on the Raspberry pi forum and you will get the same answer there. Rowland