More... Here is the mtab entry:
noleks-ub:~> cat /etc/mtab /dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/noleks/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=noleks 0 0 */dev/sdb1 /media/Personal1 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions 0 0* I think I'm real close here as a result of Chris' guidance. Is there a way to control what options the automounter uses when I plug in the drive? On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:31 PM, <nolek...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Chris > An update... > Sharing /media worked, but I still cannot access /media/Personal1, which is > actually a Western Digital portable HD. > I can see all the directories in /media. I made a test folder called > public, chmod 777, and I can edit files in there from my client. > > The Disk Utility reports that the drive is Partition Type HPFS/NTFS, Type: > NTFS. > > Not sure how to figure out what Ubuntu is using for automount... > > > On , nolek...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Chris: > > Thanks for the help. I will investigate the automounter documentation re: > filesystem types and permissions. > > Can you help me understand what "Force user" mode is? > > I am going to try to share /media with "User" authentication mode. > > Thanks again > > > > On , Chris Weiss cwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Nicholas Oleksinski > nolek...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I just installed Samba on my Karmic box and I am trying to share a > USB drive > > > > > > > that has been mounted to /media/Personal1. > > > > > > > 1) It is owned by noleks (me) > > > > > > > 2) Its permissions are 700, unchangeable (?) > > > > > > > > > > > > To change default permissions, you'd have to consult your automounter > > > > > > docs. As most usb sticks are fat32, they don't actually have > > > > > > permissions, so what you are seeing is a posix permission emulation > > > > > > layer in the vfat fs driver, which is controlled by mount flags. > > > > > > > > > > > > However, and a bigger problem, is that when you make a share on a > > > > > > mount point and the connect to it, smbd will tend to lock the mount > > > > > > point and you won't be able to cleanly unmount the disk without > > > > > > manually killing the smbd process that has it locked. > > > > > > > > > > > > What I have done in the past is to share out /media with the "force > > > > > > user" option so that access to the usb disks is done as my desktop > > > > > > login user. As I recall, this locks /media but not /media/Personal1 > > > > > > so that issue is resolved. The force user option is a lot easier to > > > > > > deal with than automounters. And sharing /media means all your usb > > > > > > drives will work without adding a share for each one. you also get > > > > > > cd/dvd-rom sharing. > > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba