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Mint automatically sharing mounted media

Hey everyone,

I just started using Mint 17.1 so bare with me.

I was setting up a share to a Windows based file server and installed cifs-utils, made a password files, edited fstab and everything worked fine.

But now notice that from the Windows box my Mint machine is sharing out all my mounted media as read only (mounted shares, thumb drive and external hdd). I went through all the folders are verified nothing is shared out via the GUI. I'm not sure if there's some Samba share setup after installing cifs-utils? I'm not really sure what else to verify the possibility of a share being setup.

Thanks

read through /etc/samba/smb.conf , you may find something (or several things) there.

In Mint 17* mounted media is located in /media/$USER/

Check to see in /etc/samba/smb.conf if /media is one of the directories being shared.

thanks for the suggestion

I just went though the smb.conf and didn't find anything. Just a couple entries for local printers.

I've only checked one workstation - I'll try another one tonight when I get home and see if they all have access to mounted devices.

not that this will be very helpful, but i recall years back one of my ubuntu's had some alternate sharing gui which did not seem to relate to smb.conf also.

my debian box ; however, only shares what i have in my smb.conf -- entries from mine if it helps:

Code:

#[...stuff...]

  server role = standalone server

  passdb backend = tdbsam

  obey pam restrictions = yes

  unix password sync = yes

  passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u

  passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

  pam password change = yes

  map to guest = bad user

  valid users = %S

#[...stuff...]

[homes]

  comment = Home Directories

  browseable = no

  read only = yes

  create mask = 0700

  directory mask = 0700

#[...stuff...]

[myusername]

path = /home/myusername

valid users = myusername

available = yes

browsable = yes

public = no

writable = yes

guest ok = no

locking = yes