Greetings,
I am repurposing my 2017 Mac Mini i7 w/ 64GB RAM and a Thunderbolt-3 enclosure with 5 SSDs running as a RAID 5 array. I have one Windows 11 machine (for gaming), and the rest are Macs.

When I try to connect to one of the shares on the RAID array, I can connect (mount the share), but the folder of the RAID share shows empty (even though it has 1+ TBs of data).

I can see the array data when I log into the Mac Mini and can use the data. Also, when I set up a share in my home directory, I can see it and edit files.

It seems to me that Samba can't see the TB 3 device or the symlink in my home folder to the raid array. For diagnosing purposes, I chmod 777 with me as the user/group for the different shares, but I still get permission errors on Windows 11, and on macOS, I am unable to add content to the TB3 share due to permissions errors.

I have tried several solutions posted on various forms with similar problems, with negative results.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Loaded services file OK.
Weak crypto is allowed by GnuTLS (e.g. NTLM as a compatibility fallback)


Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE


# Global parameters
[global]
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
logging = file
map to guest = Bad User
max log size = 1000
netbios name = SELBYNAS
obey pam restrictions = Yes
pam password change = Yes
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
server role = standalone server
server string = %h selbynas_server (Samba, Ubuntu)
smb1 unix extensions = No
unix password sync = Yes
usershare allow guests = Yes
idmap config * : backend = tdb
wide links = Yes




[homes]
comment = Home Directories
create mask = 0755




[printers]
browseable = No
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes




[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers




[user]
comment = Selbynas share directory
path = /home/user
read only = No




[user2]
comment = Selbynas share user2
path = /mnt/md0/selbynas/user2
read only = No




[selbynas]
comment = Selbynas share
guest ok = Yes
path = /mnt/md0/selbynas
read only = No


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user@selbynas-Mac-Mini:/mnt/md0$ ls -l
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 7 07:12 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx+ 18 user www-data 4096 Nov 12 06:57 selbynas
user@selbynas-Mac-Mini:/mnt/md0$
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drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Oct 23 07:23 9z22t-qwcst
drwxrwxr-x+ 12 user www-data 4096 Sep 9 08:30 fastfetch
drwxrwxrwx+ 18 user www-data 4096 Oct 22 07:40 user2
drwxrwx---+ 3 user user 4096 Oct 22 07:48 user2-Sync
drwxrwxrwx+ 28 user user 4096 Nov 8 20:37 MacStudio-ralphbrown
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Oct 23 07:23 MacStudio-Sync
drwxrwxr-x+ 7 user user 4096 Oct 23 09:30 Media
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Nov 9 16:44 nextcloud
drwxrwxr-x+ 5 user www-data 4096 Sep 7 20:24 Plex
drwxrwxrwx+ 62 user www-data 12288 Oct 22 07:36 user
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Oct 23 07:23 Selbynas
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Oct 23 07:23 Selbynas-Sync-home
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 user user 4096 Oct 23 07:23 syncthing
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Nov 12 07:02 testshare1
drwxrwxrwx+ 7 user www-data 4096 Oct 22 11:01 Windows11
ralphbrown@selbynas-Mac-Mini:/mnt/md0/selbynas$
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:/mnt/md0/selbynas$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 6.3G 5.5M 6.3G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2 916G 137G 732G 16% /
tmpfs 32G 16K 32G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p1 1.1G 6.2M 1.1G 1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda1 1.8T 423G 1.3T 25% /mnt/sdb1
tmpfs 6.3G 152K 6.3G 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb1 3.6T 465G 3.0T 14% /media/user/backup
/dev/md0 7.3T 2.0T 4.9T 29% /mnt/md0