# Installation of packages

```
sudo apt-get install usbmount
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
```

### Setup Samba

```
sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
```

Add the below configuration at the end of the file. Not secure as the below share drives as universal (rwx)

```
# usbmount - /media share
[USBDrives]
Comment = RPI
Path = /media
Browseable = yes
Writeable = Yes
only guest = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
Public = yes
Guest ok = yes
```

#### Setup samba user and restart the service

```
sudo smbpasswd -a pi
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
```

### USBMount configuration

Edit `udevd.service` to modify the `MountFlags`

under `[Service]` change `MountFlags=shared` from `MountFlags=slave`

```
sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service

...

MountFlags=shared

```

Below configuration required to mount the drives under default `pi` user

`FILESYSTEMS` to include `ntfs fuseblk`, `FS_MOUNTOPTIONS` to update `uid,gid,fmask,dmask`

```
sudo vi /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

FILESYSTEMS="vfat ext2 ntfs fuseblk ext3 ext4 hfsplus"

#FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=ntfs-3g,nls=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0000,fmask=0000 -fstype=fuseblk,nls=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0000,fmask=0000 -fstype=vfat,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0000,fmask=0000"

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,umask=0000,uid=1000,gid=1000"
```


### Notes

I could not get the NTFS drives mounted with USBMount. Mounts the drive, but with question marks (`?????`) for `ls -l` and `Transport endpoint is not connected` error when I try to `cd` in to drive

Temporary solution seems to be `umount /dev/sda1` via `ssh` and `mount /dev/sda1 /media/ntfsdir` manually.

Also somehow, OS X do not work as expected via `smb://`, wasted many hours!

So the workaround with mac is to use `Filezilla`. In case of android phone `ES File explorer` and `VLC` works as expected.