Connecting an USB drive in a NTFS file system is not well described. In Linuxmint there is the sharing utility well and beautifully installed. If I share a system disk folder I can reach it in my house lan. If I share a NTFS usb drive the utility doesn't work. The error message is a permission message. You all know that chmode doesn't work too. How can share it? I have the writing permissions because with Nautilus I copy and cut what I want.

IIRC, you can mount linux filesystems as a user, but not windoze ones. So what you say sounds right. Get rid of NTFS on the usb drive. If you're transferring from a windows box to another box, use your network.

I assume you mean you share via some cifs/samba.

You generally share a resource full read/write in samba. You then configure file based permissions no matter the file system would be my take.

However, I am not sure I fully get your question.

I have an house lan. Every room has a pc with linuxmint. I have a lot of external disks. I never had the need to share them before. Now I would like to use a linux network as wondows do, in other words I would like to have drives shared alike windows, on the network. At the moment I cannot do that. Every external, I repeat, external drives are not shared. Internal drives are well shared but I usually don't use 2T drives as internal one!! So I need to copy tons of Gigabytes between drives and I would like to use the Gigabit network. At the moment I have to go upstairs and downstairs with disks under the arms!!!! I have to connect them to computers and after the copy back again. Samba is correctly installed, the users are correctly in the groups and the sharing procedure is correct.
When I create a share, in Nautilus, there is a warning: "/media/my_user could not be reached by user due to the permissions", it says.
I used chmod to recoursively set the permissions in external drives. I correclty used the gparted to create every kind of partitions: ext4 and NTF and Fat32. Every external drive is not shareable! The Firewall is deactivate because it is a pure internal lan.

Is at there an entry in your fstab to mount the usb drive or is it automounting?

No. I did not add the line. I have both firewire a and b, and USB drives. In all computers the drivers are automounted. I have the power switch and I turn them on only when I need them.

Hello Gianluca,

When I first switched to Linux Mint from Windows 7, I also had a headache regarding sharing folders over Network with SAMBA/CUPS, and after some 15 months i tried to compile all sorts of things I learned to be related to Folder Sharing in Linux. It is sumerized this article (which of course does not cover it all but just what I learned and use now to share folders).

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtop...69386#p1969386

Each of the mentioned steps requires certain knowledge so please tell me up to which point you can follow it up and from where do you need assistance.

I assume you are stuck with properly mounting your USB hard drive so that it can be shared.

Hello, thanks for your reply. This guide is very interesting. I solved the automounting with "ls -s", and for the samba config with the forcing the user. I share over my net all disks. Unfortunately I worked with Bill products too mutch and now I want to forghet windows, so with Samba everywhere I solved all things. Thanks.