C: drive folder sharing?

Hi all - I have a Win10 desktop for gaming/more complicated work and a HP Laptop running Linux Mint MATE 18.3. I'm having an issue with folder sharing on Win10?

I've got two folders shared from my Win10 machine - the Shared Folder (which is at the default Windows location where I just copy stuff that I want to transfer over, etc) and my Music folder full of my MP3s (the Music folder is at C:/Music) that is shared so I have access to it from my Linux laptop.

The Shared Folder works fine and I can access and read and write to it, no problem on my Mint laptop using Samba, but accessing the Music folder gives me an error:


As far as I can tell, the permissions on my Music folder are set the same way there are on the Shared Folder? I.E. I went into the Sharing options for it on Win10 and clicked Advanced Sharing - gave it a name, checked the 'Share this folder' box, and added a Share permission group of 'Everyone' with 'Full Control'...yet I still don't have access...?

Any thoughts or suggestions as to why this might be?

You set share permission but then you need to set NTFS for the folder as that will stop access. C drive has a hidden share of c$ which is an admin share

I've noted the C$ Share on Linux as it is visible, but does nothing.

How would I go about setting NTFS for my Music folder to get access for myself? Thanks for the reply!

Samuria said:

You set share permission but then you need to set NTFS for the folder as that will stop access. C drive has a hidden share of c$ which is an admin share

Sorry for the bump, but I don't know what you mean by this? I know of the hidden shared folder for C:/ but don't know what you mean by setting NTFS? NTFS is a file system...?

Setting NTFS Permissions

Samuria said:

Setting NTFS Permissions

As mentioned in my original post:

...and added a Share permission group of 'Everyone' with 'Full Control'...yet I still don't have access...?

As far as I can tell, I've already done this I think?

Edited with screenshot:

*Bump* Sorry to bump, but still having this issue and as far as I can tell, I have everything set correctly!

I had to add vers=2.0 to /etc/fstab after last update to connect to windows shares as smb 1 was turned off by default in windows.

Like this (scroll to the right - it is in red)

Code:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
UUID=b023985e-c449-4301-ae92-582e6d3c39b3       /               btrfs           defaults,compress              0 0
//192.168.1.100/Downloads        /mnt/MacBook cifs credentials=/root/secret.txt,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,nounix,nofail,vers=2.0,x-systemd.device-timeout=1 0 0

Sorry for the late reply - unfortunately, that won't help me. I only access my shares when needed, not from boot. Also, my other Windows shares are working fine, it's only the one located directly in C:/ that will not let me in from my Linux machines (C:/Music).