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Share a folder between three accounts created on the Raspberry Pi
You will have to add those users to a group, and then have that group own the directory. The process is outlined in this Superuser post
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Sharing exFAT drive via Netatalk, can't create directories
I was able to solve this problem by adding:
unix priv = no
to the [share] section in /etc/netatalk/afp.conf.
Inspirational source:
http://www.gattis.org/Work-and-Tech/operating-systems-and-...
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files
Just had the same issue with some files missing. Turned out to be a permission problem. minidlna runs under a dedicated user account minidlna. It will not list files that it cannot read.
chmod -R o+...
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Mapping to Shared Drive on Linksys Router
Solved.
I was missing leading /
vers=1.0 may have helped
Drive had two logical names. S-Drive wasn't working. Seagate was.
Use:
sudo mount --verbose -o username=John,password=********,vers=1.0 //...
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How do I share files with a Mac?
As Apple abandoned AFP in favor of SMB3 you should try using samba instead.
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files
To me it looks more like a bug. Not all folders were shown. After renaming the missing folders on the harddisk just by adding '1' at the end of the folders name hthey appeared. And they stay visible ...
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files
When I had the same problem, which wasn't resolved with the -R option, I solved it by changing name of one of the folders in my video share. (/Share/Video/Horror -> /Share/Video/Horror_t), then ...
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files
In my case it turned out to be the file /var/cache/minidlna/files.db that was owned by root instead of the user minidlna. I removed the files after stopping minidlna, restarted with a force rescan and ...
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FTP Server Installing on Pi 3 Debian Strench 9
I do not understand why VSFTPD, ProFTPD, PureFTPD should not work. They all are available from the default Raspbian repository. You should be able to just install one of them, configure and run it.
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How can I connect to my RPi NFS server using version 4?
/exports/myfolder 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,nohide)
run exportfs -ra and check your exports with 'exportfs -rv' command.
then try to mount it :
mount -t nfs4 192.168.1.91:/...
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How to access a Samba shared folder from a Pi
You can use mount command
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/<your-share> /home/pi/my-share username=pi, password=mypass
You may need to install cifs-utils
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How do I share files with a Mac?
You have followed an old SysV guide, and probably messed something up. See https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/39665/8697 - all you should NEED to do is install netatalk. You could then customise /...
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Connect RPi to PC with direct Ethernet?
Here is what you could try (expanding on the comment by Seamus):
Connect Raspberry Pi and Windows PC by Ethernet cable
Find out IP-address of Ethernet interface of the Raspberry Pi.
Normally this ...
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MiniDLNA issue - not indexing files
I had similar issue. I fixed it by allowing user minidlna accessing media files.
In my case files are on external UBS drive where media folder is owner by www-data user and www-data group.
www-data is ...
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Accessing the samba shared files from the raspi
[EDITED RESPONSE II]
I will guess that the inode/x-corrpted message may be due to some permissions issues between your RPi and your Windoze machine. If that's the case, your files are not actually ...
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sftp, scp to GoDaddy server Permission denied
With
rpi ~$ scp /home/pi/Pictures/image.jpg [email protected]:/
you are trying to copy the image to the root directory / on blah.com. Doing such things isn't allowed usually for normal user. You get the ...
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Access files from one raspi of another
Answers:
Yes - Samba is a good choice for what you want to do.
There are many good resources for setting up Samba, here's one I created
The main alternative for Samba is NFS. Each has its pros and ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero as a usb ethernet gadget but with networked storage
The Raspberry Pi Zero does not have a wired port to connect it direct to your network, so you always have to use an additional device with an USB port and a wired network port. As you noted you will ...
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Failed file transfer from Rpi to Filezilla server
Your code does work with FileZilla in principal, I've just run it up on a Windows VM with FileZilla Server and a Pi with Python3. You'll need some configuring though.
server needs to be the IP ...
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Connect RPi to PC with direct Ethernet?
Copy the files to the /boot directory on the Pi.
switch off the Pi
remove the SD card
put the SD card in a card reader
attach the card reader to the PC
copy the files from the card reader to the PC
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Connect RPi to PC with direct Ethernet?
I'll make some assumptions.
You can't install anything on the PC. You can't change anything on the PC.
If you connect an ethernet cable on the PC, it will request configuration from a DHCP service.
...
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sharing printer and cd-rom via local network
Install the samba server:
rpi ~$ sudo apt update
rpi ~$ sudo apt full-upgrade
rpi ~$ sudo apt install samba
It description (apt show samba) says:
SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
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Use rPi as a remote access a network drive when outside of network
I'd recommend having a conversation with your IT department about viable alternatives for access (for example getting VPN access) rather than trying to engineer out some solution yourself.
Not only ...
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Saving files on External HD on Pi 3 from Ubuntu
As an alternative, you may setup a Samba (SMB or CIFS) share on your RPi. See Samba for details. The advantages are that both Linux and Windows systems can read and write SMB/CIFS shares. There are ...
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GUI for LAN Shares
Filezilla is the simplest way to do it.
You can install it on one Pi and use it to see the directories on both, for transferring.
It is easily installed:
sudo apt-get install filezilla
All it ...
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Sync files between Mac and raspberry pi
export the directory on the pi with nfs and then use rsync to synchronize the files from the mac to the pi or vice versa.
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Sync files between Mac and raspberry pi
You might be able to this by setting up a local git server on your pi.
Git is a version control system that is built around a branch-merge control system. This basically means that when you're ...
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Securely sharing a Pi repository dir to other systems
Ok, so I was way overthinking this, and in fact it's exceptionally simple.
On my dev laptop:
sudo apt-get install sshfs
mkdir ~/repos/pi
sshfs [email protected]:/home/pi/repos ~/repos/pi
Now in my IDE, ...
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Save to a network location in Python
Python can only easily access local paths, not network paths.
See here for a similar question with a suggested fix.
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Windows 7 drops connection to shared folder on Raspberry Pi
The key point here is:
it says "Identifying..." and I again see the Pi on the "Networks" tab
under "Computers", next to my PC. But then "Local Area Connection"
switches to "Unidentified network"...
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