On 2019-11-26 02:58, linux guy wrote: > Hi people. > > I'm running Samba on Fedora 31. It's working great. > > I want to share a USB drive using Samba. I've tried mounting it to a directory within a Samba share and it does work due to permission errors. > > - I create the mount directory (USB) as a normal user, thus giving it "normal" permissions. Fore test purposes, I can r/w/x files to this directory with no problems. > > - I mount the USB device to the mount directory using mount /dev/sdb1 USB. > > - I can access the USB directory from the server and r/w/x everything just fine. > > - When I try to access the share/USB directory from the client, like Dolphin, it requests permission in the form of user and password. The user and password that I use to access the share do not work. Nor does the user and password I use to access the server. > > What am I missing ? > > How does one share a USB device via Samba ? > I am not really a "samba" person since we're Linux centric and rely on nfs and sshfs. But I had a few moments and I did get a version of what I think you want to accomplish working. The first thing is that my USB drive is an 8GB stick with one partition defined and formatted as ext4. The mount point for the drive is in the userspace and a chown was done on the mounted drive to ensure it was owned by the user. [egreshko@f31k ~]$ ll -d flash drwxr-xr-x. 3 egreshko egreshko 4096 Nov 26 14:56 flash And df shows... /dev/sda1 7653064 17232 7227360 1% /home/egreshko/flash The smb.conf is rather simple [global] workgroup = ASIA security = user passdb backend = tdbsam [homes] comment = Home Directories valid users = %S, %D%w%S browseable = Yes read only = No inherit acls = Yes Now, when connected to the home share I did so first with the drive *not* mounted. I was able to exercise the contents of the flash directory just like the any directory of the user. When I mounted the drive the flash directory became inaccessible. I noted.... [egreshko@f31k ~]$ ls -dZ /home/egreshko/flash system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 /home/egreshko/flash So I did [egreshko@f31k ~]$ restorecon /home/egreshko/flash [egreshko@f31k ~]$ ls -dZ /home/egreshko/flash system_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 /home/egreshko/flash And now it works OK.. [egreshko@meimei ~]$ smbclient //f31k/egreshko -U egreshko Unable to initialize messaging context Enter SAMBA\egreshko's password: Try "help" to get a list of possible commands. smb: \> cd flash smb: \flash\> ls . D 0 Tue Nov 26 14:56:57 2019 .. D 0 Wed Nov 27 08:57:54 2019 x N 0 Tue Nov 26 14:56:57 2019 7653064 blocks of size 1024. 7227360 blocks available smb: \flash\> put wayne putting file wayne as \flash\wayne (11.2 kb/s) (average 11.2 kb/s) smb: \flash\> ls . D 0 Wed Nov 27 08:59:38 2019 .. D 0 Wed Nov 27 08:57:54 2019 wayne A 161 Wed Nov 27 08:59:38 2019 x N 0 Tue Nov 26 14:56:57 2019 7653064 blocks of size 1024. 7227352 blocks available smb: \flash\> And, just checking on the server.... [egreshko@f31k flash]$ pwd /home/egreshko/flash [egreshko@f31k flash]$ ll total 24 drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Oct 7 18:51 lost+found -rwxr--r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 161 Nov 27 08:59 wayne -rw-rw-r--. 1 egreshko egreshko 0 Nov 26 14:56 x -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
