problem mounting a share

[borissh1983 at gmail.com]

Hi Shlomo , 

Please Remember that smb has a different model of perms that Gnu/Linux, so does the uid assigned by the OS - in fact if you will try to assign Windows permissions to a Samba share you are guaranteed to have a bad time.  I found that the best practise when doing smb/cifs share (even windows to windows) is ALWAYS have a password. 

When you share between a pi and Gnu/Linux machines , sometimes it is easier to just use sshfs and nfs to share data than using SMB. 

On Sunday, 3 January 2021 14:14:18 IST Shlomo Solomon wrote:

> After mounting with either of the above, all files "seem" to be owned
> by root, even though that is not true. And obviously I cannot update or
> delete files.
> 

By default when you mount cifs you would get that ,you can force a local user to mount with. 
use the uid argument with mount. 

example : 

sudo mount -t cifs //pi/shared_with_username  /media/MYUSER/rpi -o uid=1000,user=MYUSER,pass=PSWD

remember to mount it on a folder that your user have read/write permissions on it. 

> If I do  smb://solomon@pi/PI-PUBLIC/  in Dolpin file manager, I'm also
> asked for a password, but then something strange happens. I CAN read
> and write files, but Dolphin does not show any permissions.
> 

It could be that you have both guest AND authentication setup in samba (which might trigger such issue).

Would it be possible to share your smb conf please ? 

Would it be possible to open traces from your client machine so we could help you debug this issue ? 

> And finally, the only solution that DOES work "correctly" in Dolphin is:
> fish://pi/media/PUBLIC/
> 
> BUT, I do have one "serious problem" with not being able to properly
> mount the share. Libreoffice and KIO slave do not "play well together"
> - a known issue - so the fish:// solution does not work.
> 
> What am I missing here? I know using samba to communicate between a PI
> and Kubuntu is not the best way, but in the past, it did work for me
> and I don't know what I screwed up. smb.conf on the PI has not changed
> for MANY years, but I have done countless changes, updates and upgrades
> to the Kubuntu (and before that Mandriva) machines.
>