[TriLUG] Samba on a RPi

[Hrivnak, Michael via TriLUG]

In case you're doing this with a pi 3, keep in mind that the ethernet and
USB ports are on the same bus, so creating a NAS that utilizes both can
create a bottleneck. It may or may not be noticeable for your use case, but
it's worth being aware of in case you do notice slower than expected speeds.

The design changed with the pi 4 and is no longer an issue.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 6:51 PM Matthew Glassman via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I have what I'm sure is a simple question and answer, but I may be
> overthinking it.  I have a Raspberry Pi running Pi OS (formerly
> Raspian) and have installed Samba on it.  I have an external USB Hard
> Drive that I want to use as a remote storage device.
>
> I have hooked up the USB drive, formatted it with an NTFS system, and
> created a mount point on the raspberry Pi.
>
> I have created shares in Samba (one for myself and one for my wife)
> and created the required share folder location (in relation to the
> path designated in smb.conf).  I can mount the samba share with my
> samba credentials.  The issue I have is that everything on the mounted
> share is designated as root as user and group.  I can't chmod my own
> folder that I created even with a sudo issuance.   So is this
> happening at the mounting of the share (which I believe it is)?  If
> so, can I still mount the hard drive and still have it give  my perms
> and ownership for my share and my wife's perms and ownership for her
> share?
>
> So in short..
> 1. External drive /dev/sda1 is mounted to raspberry Pi at /media/external
> 2. /media/external has samba shares /media/external/myshare and
> /media/external/hershare
> 3. I want to be able to have myshare have me as owner and samba group
> as group and similar for my wife's share.  Currently everything is
> root:root 777.
>
> Regards,
> Matthew
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