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The Samba service is normally run by root either way. Samba uses the logged in user's uid to access the files. To be able to see the files, the user needs to have permissions for the directory and the contained files. The mnt folder currently only has root permissions, which is why the user can't see the files.
You need to change the permissions of the NTFS mount. I'm not sure what the uid of
user
is, but you can find that out by executingid user
. The numbers are the ids you need. In fstab, you need to add the user's uid and gid by addinguid={},gid={}
to the line.Assuming the uid and gid are 1000, it would look like this:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2666EE3966EE097F /mnt/2666EE3966EE097F auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,uid=1000,gid=1000,x-gvfs-show 0 0
(you need to remount the partition after the change). You can check if the permissions changed in your file manager.This will change the mount's permissions to the user you want to access it from, but this also means that no other user (except root) will be able to. The link below has the answer if you want it to be accessible by all users.
I used this answer on Superuser, so it's possible that this will not fully work, but I don't have the devices to test it out currently.