[Bug 40561] Re: Problem with USB Mass Storage

Murray Scott mjscott at tpg.com.au
Sun Jul 13 16:19:15 UTC 2008


My USB disk problem is probably unrelated. I am new to Linux and
installed Ubuntu 8.04 ( irritatingly called "hardy") on a Dell Inspiron
1100. As soon as it was working, with unreasonable optimism I launched
straight into installing Windows XP in a VirtualBox. After considerable
blundering it all now works except that....

My external USB hard drive operates fine from the Ubuntu file browser under my personal login but I cannot set its folders to share. The sharing dialog tells me I don't own those folders and have no business trying to share them. It then suggests: 
       "Ask the administrator to add the line "usershare owner only = False" 
	to the [global] section of the smb.conf to allow this."
I guess that means me, so eventually I found out how to get gksudo  priviledges and change the file as suggested. No effect. Checked with gedit that the /usr/share/samba/smb.conf file is indeed changed.  With all this priviledge going to my head I even tried commenting out the line:  " invalid = root" just in case. Stalemate. 

Meanwhile,another USB drive (a 1GB memory stick) works AND shares fine. 
Any suggestions?

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Problem with USB Mass Storage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40561
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