samba - Jan 2024 - can't connect outside home directory

01.01.2024 10:09, cha charle via samba :
> Hi,
> I have setup Samba in Raspberry Pi, and  am able to connect to
"PiShare"
> (/home/charles/share) without any problems; however, somehow I can't
> connect to "entertainment" (/media/usb-drive/music), which is on
an
> external usb hard drive. I have tried numerous different
> configurations--and still no luck. Any ideas? Happy New Year. Thanks.
How about looking at what's in the logs?

ntfs filesystem works just fine on linux with samba.

/mjt

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 17:12:55 +0300
Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 01.01.2024 10:09, cha charle via samba :
> > Hi,
> > I have setup Samba in Raspberry Pi, and  am able to connect to
> > "PiShare" (/home/charles/share) without any problems;
however,
> > somehow I can't connect to "entertainment"
> > (/media/usb-drive/music), which is on an external usb hard drive. I
> > have tried numerous different configurations--and still no luck.
> > Any ideas? Happy New Year. Thanks.
> 
> How about looking at what's in the logs?
> 
> ntfs filesystem works just fine on linux with samba.
> 
> /mjt
> 
Possibly, if you use vfs_acl_xattr and set the permissions from Windows
and only want to read the data from Linux, otherwise, on a standalone
server, it doesn't work.

Rowland