[Samba] can't connect outside home directory

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 19:41:54 +0300
Michael Tokarev via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 01.01.2024 19:31, Rowland Penny via samba :
> 
> >> But all this has nothing to do with *connecting* to a share, which
> >> was the original question.
> > 
> > Ah, but it does, if you cannot set Unix permissions on the share
> > directory (and chown & chmod cannot on NTFS) then the Unix user
> > will be denied access.
> 
> So before suggesting to replace the existing filesystem, I'd say it
> is much more productive to check if the user in question is able to
> access the top-level dir of that share.  ntfs mount can use uid=/gid=
> options for that, it doesn't need to be xattr-able (so to say).  And
> sure thing this is something which the OP is already verified, right?
> :)
> 
> I'm not going to argue here anymore, it's pointless.
> 
> /mjt
> 

I don't want to argue either, but this set up comes up quite often on
the Raspberry pi forum and the only cure is to not use NTFS which
doesn't support Linux permissions.

Rowland