You are currently using a 1TB drive formatted as exFAT connected to a mini-PC running Ubuntu. This setup serves as your Plex media server and is directly plugged into the router’s Ethernet port. However, you are encountering difficulties when trying to copy files from your MacBook Air, which is running Sequoia 15.5.
While attempting to transfer files, you are faced with the frustrating ‘nope’ circle when dragging and dropping. The copy and paste function also fails to work, despite Finder indicating that you are connected under your username. This situation suggests a possible permissions issue.
To address this, you have made several modifications to the fstab and smb.conf files in hopes of resolving the problem, but unfortunately, there hasn’t been a noticeable change. The situation remains unchanged, and you find yourself looking for solutions to this apparent permissions dilemma. One potential solution is to check the actual permissions set on the mounted drive in Ubuntu.
You can access the terminal and use commands like “ls -l” to inspect the permissions on the directories you are trying to access. Ensuring that your user account has the appropriate read and write permissions is crucial. Additionally, you might want to ensure that the Samba configuration in smb.conf is correctly set to allow access to your user account.
Look for the “public” and “writable” parameters and verify that they are correctly configured. Finally, consider checking if the service is restarted after making changes to the smb.conf file, as changes may not take effect until then. By exploring these options, you may be able to resolve your permissions issue and enable file transfers from your MacBook Air.
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