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Home folder not visible over SMB
I have the NAS set up so that it creates a home folder for a user when first logged in. However, when I view the available shares through a file manager over SMB, I see all the other shares, but not ...
What tool are you using to access the share? Are you certain you are using the correct credentials?
Note that you won't be mounting or accessing /home/username. Home isn't exported as a mount point, so you just access username.
I'm using Thunar, that standard XFCE File Manager, to access the SMB shares. All other shares work just fine, and are detected when using the 'Browse Network' feature. The user's home folder doesn't show up at all.
When I try connecting to it directly, by modifying a mounted share's name in the address bar, I get a login prompt which fails saying the requested folder doesn't exist. I've verified that the credentials are correct multiple times. I've also tried it using case-sensitive and case-insensitive spelling. All fail.
The path I am using is smb://NAS-name/Username/ . I have veriefied that this folder exists by logging in with SSH and looking in the /data/home/ folder. It also shows up in the web GUI, and is interactable from there. And, as I said in my previous post, the share works over AFP.
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