can't share (samba) from NTFS drive

[xenton]

Hi Everyone,

I am very new to Ubuntu, I managed to install samba and it's GUI. I tried to share a directory within the pictures folder (at home/mark/pictures/share) just as a test. I had everything set up right, but it was inaccessible from a windows XP machine on my network. After some digging I found the problem lay with the permissions of it's parent folder. I right clicked on the parent folder then clicked properties, then clicked on the permissions tab. I changed the permissions for others and it's working fine.

I'm having the same problem now but with a share on a NTFS drive called storage. I cannot change the permissions for the shared folder or any of it's parents by right clicking. Any changes I make revert immediately back to their previous setting.

Is there any way to change the permissions to allow read access to everyone?

[dmizer]

Is the storage drive a USB external drive? If so, you will have to create a mount pont for the drive in /etc/fstab in order to set the correct local file permissions.

[xenton]

No, it's on a RAID array that consists of 2 internal SATA drives (it's not the same array as my Linux install if that makes a difference).

Thanks for your reply

[dmizer]

I see. Well, please post your /etc/fstab and highlight the section which contains the mount point for your raid array.

[xenton]

Here we are:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
 
proc    /proc    proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid    0    0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_abjcfaad3    /    ext4    errors=remount-ro    0    1
/dev/mapper/nvidia_abjcfaad2    /media/Seven    ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222    0    0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_jjeidcec1    /media/Storage    ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222,nosuid,nodev    0    0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_abjcfaad1    /media/XP    ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=0222    0    0
/dev/mapper/nvidia_abjcfaad5    none    swap    sw    0    0

[xenton]

Anybody have any ideas?

[dmizer]

Try this instead:

/dev/mapper/nvidia_jjeidcec1 /media/Storage ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Found here -> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...dowsPartitions

Note the "Known issues" section.

[xenton]

Right, I used the NTFS Config. GUI to setup my NTFS drives since my last post so my fstab entries are now as in your last post. I booted into windows and changed the permissions to give 'everyone' full access for the folders I'm trying to share.
Back in Lucid I've checked the permissions tab of the properties for the folders and it seems to reflect the changes, it now matches the successful ext 4 share I have working but still no joy.

[Morbius1]

If your fstab entry matches dmizer's this shouldn't be an issue but just in case post the permissions of the shared directory:

ls -dl /media/Storage

For the Samba part why not post your smb.conf:

testparm -s

[xenton]

These shares were added via the samba GUI, I just tried to add them by right clicking and got an error

I think I could be onto something here