Hello, I’ve been working towards fully migrating to linux, but this is one issue I’m having a hard time with. I have a couple of folders on a storage drive that I share on my local network to stream movies and TV, but I can’t figure out how to do it in my Linux install. I’m running Linux Mint 22, have installed Samba, and have tried a few different walkthroughs with no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this set up?

Thanks for your time!

  • M4st3rSh0e@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Just ran into this the other night myself. Turns out I didn’t have the path the correct way, cause samba is picky. My original config was set up with the path = /home/user/Public but I had to change it to path = /home/user/Public/ You’re path in your reply looks like it’s missing that / at the end. After you update, don’t forget to restart the service.

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      21 hours ago

      Well that made it show up thankfully, but it’s asking me to log in. Any idea how to handle that? I don’t want it to ask at all so family members have ready access.

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    22 hours ago

    It would be helpful to know what you’ve already tried and what went wrong. The more info the better.

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      22 hours ago

      Well I tried the UI approach of right clicking the folder and going to share options, which is when I was prompted to install Samba, but there is warning that states “The permission for <folder> prevent othersl users from accessing this share”. I did some digging on that error, and everything I came across basically said that wouldn’t work. My next attempt was modifying the Samba config file, I added

      [FolderName]

      path = (file directory path I see in properties, /media/username/lettersandnumbersfordrive?/FolderName)

      browseable = yes

      read only = yes

      guest ok = yes

      create mask =0775

      As instructed by a tutorial I found. When running testpram I don’t get any errors, but I’m not seeing the folder in VLC like I do when sharing from Win10. That’s as far as I have gotten. If there’s anything else that I can provide please let me know, and on that note, the drive I’m sharing from is NTFS if that has any impact.

      Thanks again!

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      20 hours ago

      You might have answered the OP question, and a long standing mine as well. Gonna check this up on my setup