Pi4 Samba USB Share

[Zaphod]

Hi,

I had a Samba share set-up on a PI3B+ and I have just bought a PI4 and transferred the USB drive and then setup Samba in theory the same. I can view all the files on the USB drive, I can also pen them (pictures) but I can't change or add anything.

smb.conf:

[public]
comment = public storage
path = /media/pi/Data/Backup
valid users = pi
force group = pi
create mask = 0775
directory mask = 0775
read only = no
writeable = yes

changing workgroup to match Win 10 machine made no difference

ls -l:

total 4
drwxrwx--- 1 pi pi 4096 May 27 19:36 Pictures
drwx------ 1 pi pi 0 May 26 17:52 'Pictures - Archive'
pi@raspberrypi:/media/pi/Data/Backup $

I have tried lots of settings, but have obviously messed something up.

[DougieLawson]

What format is the filesystem on that drive.

If it is NTFS you need to install ntfs-3g to get read/write access to it.

[Zaphod]

Thanks - that fixed it. Knew it was something I missed.

[DougieLawson]

Thanks - that fixed it. Knew it was something I missed.

Reformat the drive to a native Linux filesystem and it will run three times faster. NTFS on Linux is an ugly hack.

[cpc464]

Hi OP,

On the subject of file systems, I also obtained better Pi 4/Samba performance from XFS. I would recommend it over ext4 in this case.

Speeds were 65 megabytes/s for writing, 105 megabytes/sec for reading, and peaking at 125 megabytes/s (which saturated the Gigabit network!). Terrific performance from the Pi 4, probably better then many domestic NAS products.

Jim.

[hortimech]

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[public]
  comment = public storage
  path = /media/pi/Data/Backup
  valid users = pi
  force group = pi
  create mask = 0775
  directory mask = 0775
  read only = no
  writeable = yes

Interesting name for a share that isn't public

Only the user 'pi' or members of the group 'pi' (usually just 'pi') will be able to connect to it, so the two 'masks' are a bit strange, surely '0770' would be more apt. Also 'read only = no' and 'writeable = yes' mean the same thing, so you only need one of them