SMB Share - Help Before I Rip Out What's Left of My Hair :)? (Edit: Solved!)

unknowing8343, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I was literally fighting with this these last 4 hours, and here’s my conclusion:

What a goddamn mess Samba is. How in the world is it so hard to make this thing work?

I eventually realised that for my usecase minidlna would work, at least for a while, and it was amazing how simple it was.

This is all I can say about the subject. I am surprised there are no simple ways to setup Samba folders such as a GUI that asks you “what ya wanna share? Oh, okay, you want people to write things on it? Cool! It’s working now. Don’t forget to check these ports on your firewall, bye!”

hypoproteinosis96, 16 days ago

Everything has been immeasurably easier on Linux. But holy fuck the Windows’ Right Click -> Share is eons better than this :(

Certainly_No_Brit, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I don’t fully understand this setup. Did I misunderstand something?

You have a Fedora PC with an NTFS partition mounted to /run/media/user/share. The Fedora computer shares a directory /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F over Samba.

Fedora and another computer connect to /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F/ over Samba, but they show no content.

Did you perhaps forget to remount your NTFS partition to /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F/? Otherwise I don’t see a way to access the content with your current configuration.

hypoproteinosis96, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

The configuration change in /etc/fstab is what stopped it being mounted correctly on boot. But is what was recommended for the SMB share.

I’m not sure I understand why it changes from MNT to Media based on the GUI’s changes to the drive. If I have it auto-mount, it adds a 2nd listing like this:

<span style="color:#323232;">//192.168.0.30/share /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto cifs username=user,password=1 0 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/dev/disk/by-uuid/2666EE3966EE097F /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
</span>

Do I combine them in some fashion lol?

Did I misunderstand something?

No, I’m stupid :'(

Certainly_No_Brit, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

You need to put the bommon line /dev/disk/by-uuid/2666EE3966EE097F /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 onto the computer with the NTFS partition.

The top line //192.168.0.30/share /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto cifs username=user,password=1 0 0 is for mounting the Samba share on another device.

hypoproteinosis96, 16 days ago

Gotcha I appreciate your patience w/ my silly questions lol

If the now correctly mounted folder is empty, is that a read/write issue for:

1. the user on the remote machine
2. the logged-in user on the local machine
3. the user running the samba service?

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Certainly_No_Brit, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

The Samba service is normally run by root either way. Samba uses the logged in user’s uid to access the files. To be able to see the files, the user needs to have permissions for the directory and the contained files. The mnt folder currently only has root permissions, which is why the user can’t see the files.

You need to change the permissions of the NTFS mount. I’m not sure what the uid of user is, but you can find that out by executing id user. The numbers are the ids you need. In fstab, you need to add the user’s uid and gid by adding uid={},gid={} to the line.

Assuming the uid and gid are 1000, it would look like this: /dev/disk/by-uuid/2666EE3966EE097F /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,x-gvfs-show 0 0 (you need to remount the partition after the change). You can check if the permissions changed in your file manager.

This will change the mount’s permissions to the user you want to access it from, but this also means that no other user (except root) will be able to. The link below has the answer if you want it to be accessible by all users.

I used this answer on Superuser, so it’s possible that this will not fully work, but I don’t have the devices to test it out currently.