[Samba] can't connect outside home directory

[cha charle]

I see. Thank you so much for the information. Happy New Year!

On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 3:48 AM Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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