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Make Samba share of NTFS drive secure

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So I have the following setup:

  • Ubuntu 22.04 running my home server headless
  • a 4TB hard drive plugged in via USB, which is NTFS because I would like to sometimes plug it into another Windows machine
  • the mounting is configured in /etc/fstab as:
    /dev/sdb2 /media/myname ntfs-3g windows_names,uid=myname,gid=usbdrive,umask=007,nofail,nobootwait 0 0
  • where the usbdrive group is created by me and contains my account myname and all other users that need access to that drive (jellyfin, www-data etc.)

So far everything worked, but complications arise when I wanted to also Samba share a part of this drive.

The only way I can manage to see the share appear on Windows is with umask=000 in fstab and guests ok = yes in the Samba config. And I'd like to avoid both of these for security reasons. Obviously(?) if I managed to connect with my ubuntu local user account (with guests ok = no \ force user = myname), umask=007 should suffice, so I think the actual question is, how to set up the share in such a way that it will ask and accept my local ubuntu credentials?

Previously I managed to set up such Samba shares, but on this 'specially mounted' drive Windows keeps saying 'access denied' for the correct ubuntu user credentials.


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