Simple, basic SMB share woes

[SUBnet192]

I created a share called DataVault. When I map to it using a named account, it creates a new folder with the user's name, which seems to become his "home" (although I specified /nonexistent).

When I login using a different account, I can't see the content that was put in DataVault because it seems every user gets a different mapping location to the same share name.

What the heck am I doing wrong?

 

[Nick2253]

What the heck am I doing wrong?

To be honest, it's hard to answer this question because we have no idea what you're doing in the first place.

How did you create your share? What setting did you select? How are you actually logging in? What client are you using? What OS? Etc, etc.

 

[SUBnet192]

Coming from the Windows world, it's a lot to learn.

OS is irrelevant, same result from MacOS and Windows.
Creating an SMB share is fairly straightforward.
- Windows SMB share
- Path /mnt/StgPoolA
- Name DataVault
- Private SMB <--- There you go... I set it back to default shares and I don't have that issue, however I only have readonly access.
- ACL: Permission FULL, ALLOWED, Everyone.

So now I see the root with an iocage folder but I'm readonly everywhere.

created a user:

GID:​

544

Home directory:​

/nonexistent

Shell:​

/bin/sh

Email:​

marc@subnet192.com

Password Disabled:​

false

Lock User:​

false

Permit Sudo:​

false

Microsoft Account:​

false

Samba Authentication:​

true

 

[Nick2253]

You want to create a dataset in your pool, and share that. You don't want to share the top level pool directory.

 

[SUBnet192]

Thank you, that was the secondary issue. Groups and permissions management is fairly complex... I'll have to spend quite a bit of time to figure this out :)

Thanks again.