Good morning all.
I want to say thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide. I have been messing with this for two days now.
Summary of issue.
I can not create a Samba share outside of my Home directy that can be accesesd by client devices.
I have created a shareof my Home Directory and it works perfectly.
Both shares have the same Valid User in the SMB.conf file and are usingthe same username and password for the Samba user.
Details of Issue
I have created a folder off the root folder (needed by some of my software) that I am the owner of and read and write permissions are set for user, group and other for the folder and all files and folder below the main directory.
I have set the permission on the /Media folder as openly as possible to try and remove permissions as the issue but that did nothing. I explored ACLs but I didnt find an explanation of them that made snse for my use case as it is just my user accessing the files from all locations.
Here is my SMB.conf file.
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = FILESERVER
server role = standalone server
map to guest = bad user
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
log level = 2 winbind:5
dns proxy = no
[bboyle]
comment = My stuff
path = /home/bboyle
valid users = bboyle
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0765
[content]
comment = My Media
path = /Media
#valid users = bboyle
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
force user = bboyle
force group = bboyle
create mask = 0765
force create mode = 0765
As I said the home share works pefectly from multiple clients including Windows computers and SMB clients however the Content share can be seen by windows and other SMB clients but when you access the share you get Access Denied.
It is worth noting this is a fesh install of Manjaro XFCE as of two days ago and I did all updates right after the installation.
I was able to replicate the error on my latptop with a fesh install of Manjaro on it as well.
No useable errors show up in the Samba log so I am totaly stumped.
If it helps, here is the LS listing of the root directory showing only the /Media folder
drwxrwxrwx 9 bboyle bboyle 4096 Mar 25 21:22 Media
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,