(03-03-2019, 01:38 AM)bitsnpcs link Wrote: For host it needs the Ip address, folder name is the name of the directory of the shared files, user is the username , as the conf file specifies %U, so the username of admin user on the machine running Samba.
During the searches I noticed about the Ip, dns it says on a multiple machine shares then it needs to be different for each one so they can be uniquely identified as which machine they are. I'll look for which link explained it. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Multiple_Server_Instances
Explains for multiple servers but looking at the adresses format is what I meant.

(03-03-2019, 03:22 AM)Phobos84 link Wrote: OMG I finally got it.  I have seriously put 18 hours into getting this to work today.  I HATE SAMBA.  Anyway the problem was that I never set the second hard drive to auto mount.  Once I did that the directory info changes.  You just have to change smb.conf to match.  This is what it looks like now.

Code:

#======================= Global Settings ====================================
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Linux Lite Shares
netbios name = Server
security = user
encrypt passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
map to guest = bad user
guest account = nobody
dns proxy = no
#======================= Share Definitions ===================================
[liteshare]
path = /home/%U/linux_share
available = yes
valid users = %U %G
write list = %U
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no

[Gunroom]
path = /mnt/11390a57-b9fd-4fbb-849a-a1006275139d/shares/
available = yes
valid users = %U %G
write list = %U
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no

Thanks everyone for giving me pointers.  If nothing else I learned a lot about samba today.