I set up a machine with Ubuntu 14.4.1 yesterday and I am trying to use it as remote storage for a project I am working on remotely with a few people. I know nothing about hosting servers, so I am attempting to avoid the issue entirely by just treating it like a local area network using Hamachi.
The Ubuntu machine has 2 hard drives - a boot drive on which Linux is installed and a larger data drive. I am attempting to share a directory on the data drive via samba so that it can be accessed via Hamachi by windows 7 machines.
I am able to see the directories that I have shared, but when I try to enter them, I get a permission denied error. When I share a directory within my /home/user/ directory, it works fine. Is there any way that I can share a directory on my data drive?
Perhaps I could make a symbolic link from my user directory to the data drive? Would that actually work? I am not familiar.
If it is NTFS, you can't change the permissions, which will be the issue.