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hey hey,
i set up my pi with xbian and first to say it works great ( media play, library )
i am new to linux, i know how i can connect to the pi with putty
Now i try to set up smb so when i connect from my pc (WiN 8) to the pi he will ask me for a user and pw, in config i found write access but only for everyone eg anonymous and i dont want this

i got it that he ask for a user and pw for the default folders "xbian" "xbian-xbmc" "system-logs" but not for my connected usb hard drive, how can i set this up ? And is it necessary to create multiple users for every pc in the network or can all connect with the same user/pw?
probably its necessary for more user accounts for only read and read/write access.

Sorry for my bad english it is not my main language but i hope anybody can help me.

Software
XBian version: latest ( installed 2 days ago) 1.0 beta 2 i guess
XBMC version: included in the xbian installer
Overclock settings: none

Hardware
Power supply rating: 1,2A 5V
RPi model (model A/B 256mb/512mb): B / 512 mb
SD card size and make/type: SanDisk Ultra 16gb 30mb/s
Network (wireless or LAN): Lan
Connected devices (TV, USB, network storage, etc.): TV , USB Keyboard and 1TB HDD

I'm not an expert in this field, but from what you are saying, you will need to look at the conf files in
/etc/samba/

Maybe someone else has a better idea.

(12th Mar, 2014 09:54 AM)Eisregen04 Wrote: [ -> ]i got it that he ask for a user and pw for the default folders "xbian" "xbian-xbmc" "system-logs" but not for my connected usb hard drive, how can i set this up ? And is it necessary to create multiple users for every pc in the network or can all connect with the same user/pw?
probably its necessary for more user accounts for only read and read/write access.

at /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

there are three parameters

SHARESMB=yes
SHARERW=no
SHARELT=no

1 - shares enabled on hotplug disks
2 - rw access enabled (anonymous)
3 - rw limitations - expects xbian user ownership and asks password for xbian user (smbuser xbian)

Hi Everybody,

I didn't have the value "SHARELT" in my /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf I update my Xbian but it's the same result : Just SHARESMB & SHARERW.

When I look the /usr/share/usbmount/usbmount file, I didn't find the SHARELT option.

My goal is to have 2 access with samba : Anonymous with Read & Xbian width Write/Read.

Any Solution ?

THX

Despendo
French user

Old thread, but I was looking for the same kind of thing
I did it with defining xbian as samba user with a password :
then defining shares in /etc/samba/shares.conf
For me it looks like this :
- disable xbian-xbmc, in the latest distrib, .xbmc doesn't exist anymore
- xbian and logs available only for xbian
- a dropbox dir to allow guests to upload files
- an exemple of directory in read only mode for guests
- an exemple of directory in read/write mode for xbian only