Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Ok, what about permissions for the /media and /media/pi directories? > > > This is likely my last attempt to help with your troubleshooting as I > have only limited and less than recent experience with Samba.
+1 and also is important to know what the exact issue is, which would be visible in the smb log. >From what I remember there was the @nobody group that would be used to access something granted guest permissions. There is too much level of complexity in this issue from what I read already: 1. it is RaspberryPI OS (based on debian but there is also dedicated list where it could be answered more efficiently) 2. The actual user plugging the external disk is paulf but disk mounts as default user pi 3. Who knows how is exactly samba pre-configured Last but not least I was thinking of simply restarting samba server after plugging in - this way whatever is there should become visible.
