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I have a Raspberry Pi (though could be any Debian Linux box) connected to an external hard disk formatted as NTFS.

My disk mount in fstab is:

/dev/sda1 /media/disk  ntfs-3g  defaults,uid=1000,gid-1000,dmask=007,fmask=007  0  0

where user 1000 is the 'pi' user

/media/disk/shared is my Samba root folder. Must be accessible from Windows and Mac

Now, I can see the share in Windows, but I get permission denied. If I try mapping a drive to it, and attempt login using \machinename\pi the login fails.

Any ideas?

Edit-- smb.conf below. I've removed all comment lines (I assume lines beginning # or ; are comments)

[global]

   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   server string = %h server
   dns proxy = no
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 1000
   syslog = 0
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
   encrypt passwords = true
   passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = yes
   unix password sync = yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
   pam password change = yes
   map to guest = bad user

   usershare allow guests = yes

[shared]
   comment = Ali and Greg Shared Folders
   writeable = yes
   public = yes
   browseable = yes
   path = /media/disk/shared
   guest only = yes
   guest ok = yes

   read only = no

   create mask = 0777
   directory mask = 0777

[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   browseable = no
   path = /var/spool/samba
   printable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = yes
   create mask = 0700

[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no

[hdd]
   comment = Samba server's HDD
   read only = no
   locking = no
   path = /media/disk/shared
   guest ok = yes
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  • Did you add the users to the Samba password database using smbpasswd -a? Samba does not authenticate against /etc/shadow && /etc/passwd. See http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbpasswd.8.html.
    – Sean C.
    Oct 1, 2012 at 19:12
  • More confused! I tried smbpasswd. Still couldn't connect. Created a new share. Still couldn't connect. Messed with various Windows (8) file sharing and network discovery settings. It starts working on the new share (but not the old one). I then one by one change all the Windows settings back to what they were, expecting the share to stop working... it still works. I will try to redo this server from scratch from my notes and figure this out. But not tonight! Thanks for the suggestion though.
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 1, 2012 at 20:21
  • In smb.conf, the share that works is /media/disk, the share that doesn't is /media/disk/shared. Both have the same permissions.
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 1, 2012 at 20:30
  • Attempting to connect from a second Windows 7 PC failed. I go back to the partially working Windows 8 PC, and now that fails to connect on both shares. I have changed nothing on the Debian box. This is too random. I am beyond help. Will start from scratch :(
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 2, 2012 at 9:49
  • Could you please post the contents of your smb.conf file?
    – Sean C.
    Oct 2, 2012 at 13:06

2 Answers 2

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From 0 to Samba on RaspberryPi (Debian)!

root@raspberrypi:/var/log# uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.1.9+ #272 PREEMPT Tue Aug 7 22:51:44 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
root@raspberrypi:/var/log# cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l

This works for me on my Pi. The smb.conf is 8 lines (not counting the blank). I've connected with both Mac OSX and Windows 7 clients without issue using the username testme with password set to testme. You could literally paste this line for line other than setting the passwords.

##the REQUIRED smbpasswd is part of samba-common-bin -- YOU MUST EXPLICITY SELECT IT
aptitude install samba samba-common-bin
mkdir -p /data/share
chmod 1777 /data/share
cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak

cat > /etc/samba/smb.conf << "EOF"
workgroup = workgroup
netbios name = rpi
encrypt passwords = yes

[share]
path = /data/share
read only = no
browseable = yes
valid users = testme
EOF

useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/testme -m testme
passwd testme ##set password
smbpasswd -a testme ##set same password; this is used for samba authentication

/etc/init.d/samba restart

### DONE!! ###
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  • Tried that. I can still see the share in Windows, but cannot open it. How is the testme user granted access to the mounted folder which has owner 'pi'? From what I can tell, the masks in my fstab only allow owner and group access to the disk.
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 3, 2012 at 20:24
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    I would remove /etc/fstab from the equation, and even NTFS for the moment. Mount a local directory as a samba share. If that works, mount the NTFS share with a simple mount command which, devoid of fstab, accepts the default options. I plugged in a NTFS formatted disk, mounted it with mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs and then shared it out with samba without issue.
    – Sean C.
    Oct 4, 2012 at 11:09
  • Now I've changed to using 'permissions' instead of 'defaults' in my fstab mount, your method using smbpasswd works perfectly. Thanks
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 5, 2012 at 17:25
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Here's my configuration and it works:

[public]
comment = Public Storage
path = /media/hddusb
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
read only = no
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
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  • This works for me, provided my fstab mount point is set up with no security at all (mask permissions of 000). I had to work that bit out for myself :)
    – Greg Woods
    Oct 3, 2012 at 21:05
  • I commented on my own post below before I read this. I'm glad you got it worked out.
    – Sean C.
    Oct 4, 2012 at 11:12

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