I have the two users equah
and hoster
on my machine.
I created a samba share test1
in /home/equah
, which is accessible by user equah
without any problem.
I also created the share test2
in /smbtest
and changed ownership to user equah
, which is accessible by equah
too.
But when I create the share test3
in /home/hoster/sharetest
and try to connect, nautilus prompts with Failed to mount Windows share: Permission denied
, which is what i would like to get working.
ls -l
shows the following details on the described directories:
drwx------ 14 equah equah 4096 Sep 8 20:09 /home/equah
drwxr-xr-x 2 equah equah 4096 Sep 8 20:33 /smbtest
drwxrwxrwx 3 equah equah 4096 Sep 8 20:44 /home/hoster/sharetest
drwx------ 19 hoster hoster 4096 Sep 8 20:20 /home/hoster
I also saw, that Access Control System applied permissions on the hoster
home directory, which I removed to see if this was the error, but without any success.
I currently use a fresh Arch Linux installation with samba 4.8.5-1
.
My samba configuration (/etc/samba/smb.conf
) contains:
[global]
workgroup = EQGROUP
server string = eq-host samba server
server role = standalone server
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = no
[test1]
comment = test
path = /home/equah
valid users = equah
[test2]
comment = test
path = /smbtest
valid users = equah
[test3] # <== Not Working ?
comment = test
path = /home/hoster/sharetest
valid users = equah
My toughs are, that some permission settings might prevent the logged in samba user from accessing content of a directory from which any parent directory is owned by another user. Tough creating a share in /home/hoster/sharetest/test
and changing ownership of both sharetest/test
to equah, does also not work to share only the test
folder