Yes, ideally I'd like RW access to all of those folders shown, and any subfolders of them. I have no idea who dialout is - I've not created a user on the Pi, and every step I've been through from a fresh install (other than enabling VNC) is shown on the first post on this thread. All I can think is ...

Thanks. I’ll try those settings tomorrow. For now here’s the result of the second suggestion.


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Thanks for the replies both. I got the share instructions from an online guide to setting up a samba share, although I don't have the URL anymore. I used this one, rather than another I found and tried previously, because it's the only one I've found that gives me completely successful read/write ac...

I've gone from total beginner on this and I'm almost there, but I'm falling at the final hurdle! I have a Pi running the latest Raspbian and it exists to host a USB drive on my local network, and also download torrents to it. The USB drive is formatted to ext4 and shared via Samba. Here's what I've ...