[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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