Why can't I share from immediate subdirectories of "/"?

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Your initial topic didn’t mention NTFS and it should be irrelevant on Linux

According to the motherwiki you definately shouldn’t use uid and gid

Warning: Using uid and/or gid as mount options may cause I/O errors, it is recommended to set/check correct File permissions and attributes instead.
– Samba - ArchWiki

Permissions on the content is irrelevant when it comes to NTFS - what is relevant though is your mountpoint - which must have the the correct permissions set e.g.

chmod ugo+rw /loc

Sharing partitions is not an issue - when they have been mounted :slight_smile: no matter where they are mounted - my personal preference is either /a on a workstation and /data on a server with additional bind mount into /srv for system protection.

I have been a sysadmin for a living and when creating shared resources always use a dedicated structure - there is nothing that beats predicatability when it comes to troubleshooting.

One of your partitions

It would be better to use a more permanent idenfication and label the partition, also remove the fluff added by Gnome Disks or your troubleshooting steps

e2label /dev/sdb1 Lothlorien

Then mount without the fluff and uid gid stuff

UUID=A0E42A6AE42A4340 /loc/Lothlorien ntfs defaults  0 2

You may find [root tip] [How To] Samba Server From Scratch interesting - albeit no relation to Windows and NTFS.

When dealing with NTFS - the permissions on the mountpoint e.g. /loc will dictate what the samba service will allow.

Your mystery - moving the mountpoints inside your home is permission related - my guess is that you didn’t create a samba user.

Perhaps the combination of a missing samba user, your gid, uid in the mount options and the mount inside a tree with initial permissions of your gid and uid inadvertently solved your issue.

I think you have been labyrinting a xy problem where you would likely be better of starting from scratch.

I am the trial’n’error guy - so I have often forced myself to start over - attacking the issue from a different angle. This forum has been an invaluable tutor in that regard.

Remember

  • a system user is not a samba user
  • a samba user requires a system user
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