[Solved-I think???] MagPi #58 - Fileserver HELL-P!!!

[Dwozzz]

Hi All,

I have been driving myself crazy trying to get this working for weeks. To be fair, I am useless at this ! Anyway, long story short - when I saw this tutorial in MagPi I was so happy! I followed it almost to the letter the one difference being that I mounted the usb dev to the dir created... I used:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /share

Could this be the problem? I literally have no idea here

My original cry for help is as yet unanswered in Networking:
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=184905

Thanks in advance,

[Dwozzz]

Wow, wow, wow - I think it's finally working!!!!

I did a couple of extra things (Not my doing I read various guides from other people but thought it hadn't worked so closed all browsers down. After a sudo reboot it appeared this had worked?!? Sorry if this was your work - I'm not taking credit:

In the /etc/samba/smb.conf I changed:

• 1) Under [Global]
  WINS support =yes (It was no)

• 2) Under [homes]
  read only =no (It was yes)

• 3) I did sudo chown pi:pi /nameofdirectorycreated -R

I restarted Samba each time but got frustrated as it didn't work...
Then gave up, did a sudo reboot and somewhere along the way it fixed it

Hope this helps someone else too?