Re: Guest Samba shares
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 04:14:15PM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > Ok, what about permissions for the /media and /media/pi directories?
> >
> >
> > This is likely my last attempt to help with your troubleshooting as I
> > have only limited and less than recent experience with Samba.
>
> +1
>
> and also is important to know what the exact issue is, which would be
> visible in the smb log.
>
> >From what I remember there was the @nobody group that would be used to
> access something granted guest permissions.
>
> There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read
> already:
>
> 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but there is also dedicated list
> where it could be answered more efficiently)
It is perfectly feasible to run your Raspberry Pi on (relatively) stock Debian
- https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi with a bit of luck.
Check the groups for user pi. Check the groups for paulf. If you make the
groups the same, what error results?
Part of this at least is perhaps, because Raspberry Pi OS is set up to anticipate a pi
user - hence the suggestion to try Debian
Andy C
> 2. The actual user plugging the external disk is paulf but disk mounts as
> default user pi
> 3. Who knows how is exactly samba pre-configured
>
> Last but not least I was thinking of simply restarting samba server after
> plugging in - this way whatever is there should become visible.
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