Share an external hard disk on the network

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Felipe DOMINGUEZ
<felipe.dominguez at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to share a hard disk on the network using samba.
>
> To share a directory on my local home is not a problem. I do it using the
> procedure at
>
> Share files and folders with other computers
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/internet/C/networking-shares.html
>
> and it works fine, but when I try to share an enter external disk I am told
> that I have not enough permissions since I do not own the mounted directory.

Hi Phillipe.   That proceedure is an end-user 'quick' way to share out
samba shares that you own.  It doesn't work in some cases, like yours.
  I'd suggest you instead alter the /etc/samba/smb.conf file manually
to share out your Trekstor drive.

There are lots of examples of setting it up this way like this one
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605

Try that and let us know how you do.

Brian