05-10-2025, 08:08 PM
stevef thanks again.
Got it working pretty well and learning more by the day.
Permissions seem to be a stumbling block. If I create the shared folder at the bottom of the hierarchy as /share and set the permissions to r/w works well. If the share is within the /home/jim/share not so good. Seems all the ancestor folders need to be r/w?
I find that Thunar running as administrator works equally as well as chmod. I also observed Thunar's trouble creating an empty folder. I find that a useful trick, like leaving trail of bread crumbs when observing the folder remotely.
I managed to create a smb.conf with 2 shares -- one password protected the other anonymous named respectively needLogin and wideOpen. Curious differences in behaviour between W10 explorer and Thunar...
Using Thunar, a dlg pops up asking for credentials -- anonymous works for wideOpen as one would hope and for needLogin I need the password.
W10, requires login credentials just to get past the server name to see the two shares. Changing the password on the server and restarting smbd does not affect the connection once made. I feel like a tester in the QA lab chasing irreproducible results.
Thanks again for getting me headed in the right direction. I have lernt that Google or even Perplexity can be dangerous. A simple sounding search may come up answers that are incomplete, obsolete, not-applicable or just plain wrong.
Oh one last question. In windows 'C:\' is called the root, and root has a whole different meaning here I know. But is there a name for files at that level of '/'?
Got it working pretty well and learning more by the day.
Permissions seem to be a stumbling block. If I create the shared folder at the bottom of the hierarchy as /share and set the permissions to r/w works well. If the share is within the /home/jim/share not so good. Seems all the ancestor folders need to be r/w?
I find that Thunar running as administrator works equally as well as chmod. I also observed Thunar's trouble creating an empty folder. I find that a useful trick, like leaving trail of bread crumbs when observing the folder remotely.
I managed to create a smb.conf with 2 shares -- one password protected the other anonymous named respectively needLogin and wideOpen. Curious differences in behaviour between W10 explorer and Thunar...
Using Thunar, a dlg pops up asking for credentials -- anonymous works for wideOpen as one would hope and for needLogin I need the password.
W10, requires login credentials just to get past the server name to see the two shares. Changing the password on the server and restarting smbd does not affect the connection once made. I feel like a tester in the QA lab chasing irreproducible results.
Thanks again for getting me headed in the right direction. I have lernt that Google or even Perplexity can be dangerous. A simple sounding search may come up answers that are incomplete, obsolete, not-applicable or just plain wrong.
Oh one last question. In windows 'C:\' is called the root, and root has a whole different meaning here I know. But is there a name for files at that level of '/'?