Hey there! Windows refugee here looking for some help.

I was trying to setup Samba and get a directory shared from the external drive I have connected to my Pi. Got frustrated as I couldn't make a connection from my laptop or PC and decided to yank the drive and plug it direct to the PC, but getting this unknown error now mounting the drive anywhere. I was messing around with the samba conf file replacing the number/letter string back to the drive name--i had gotten an error previously, maybe due to the spaces, so used this string instead. I think I had started looking into mounting the drive but can't find any terminal commands I ran in that respect, and I got interrupted so can't remember what I was doing. I tried putting the path back to the string but no luck. Can someone point me in the right direction?

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago*

looks like you're not even able to mount it, I'd start with that. it could be a few reasons, maybe it's ntfs format and needs a checkdisc, have a look in lsblk for details, and I'd have a look in dmesg --follow and see if you can find the error.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would do the following step-by-step

    • manual mounting the drive
    • sharing via samba
    • auto mount

    while doing the steps, i would

    • read wiki.archlinux.org when I need help on those steps
    • read cyberciti.biz tutorials on those topics
    • use explainshell.com to learn details about the commands I need to enter
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