[Samba] can't connect outside home directory

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 03:38:03 -0600
cha charle via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response. I am a little bit confused. The USB
> drive was formatted in NTFS and has a few hundred music albums on it.
> Does it mean that I have to reformat my USB drive?
> 

NTFS is not a native Linux filesystem and the Linux tools (chmod,
chown etc) cannot set Linux permissions on it, so your choices are a
bit limited, you either plug it back into a Windows machine and share
it from there, or you reformat it (after backing up the contents
somewhere) with a Linux filesystem.

This comes up quite often on the Raspberry pi forum and you will get
the same answer there.

Rowland