Cannot access my hda from windows

[imgermany]

so i did

chown -R ingo:ingo /var/hda/files/books

this was my installation user which is visible in the user Tab and in the shares under settings of the hda.

the answer:
ungültiger benutzer "ingo:ingo" which means: unknown user

whoops? how can that be?

Maybe there ist still the bug with capitals in usernames? I read that an older amahi version had that bug that causes different problems? i think i used an "I" in the username "Ingo" at installation...should i do a new install?

how to check wether the user is really not there?

[bigfoot65]

To see if the user exists, do the following:

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cat /etc/passwd

If the user is there, then it exists. Otherwise it does not.

Not sure about the capitalization in the name. I always use lowercase to be safe.

[imgermany]

so:

Last login: Tue Jan 6 01:07:23 2015 from 192.168.1.201
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/passwd
root0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
operator11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin
games12games:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
ftp14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin
nobody99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
systemd-journal-gateway191:191:Journal Gateway:/var/log/journal:/usr/sbin/nologin
dbus81:81:System message bus:/:/sbin/nologin
polkitd999:998:User for polkitd:/:/sbin/nologinmysql27:27:MariaDB Server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash
apache48Apache:/usr/share/httpd:/sbin/nologin
saslauth998:76:"Saslauthd user":/run/saslauthd:/sbin/nologin
avahi70:70:Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack:/var/run/avahi-daemon:/sbin/nologin
avahi-autoipd170:170:Avahi IPv4LL Stack:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/sbin/nologin
mailnull47:47::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
smmsp51:51::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
chrony997:997::/var/lib/chrony:/sbin/nologin
sshd74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin
Ingo1000:1000:Ingo M[ller:/home/Ingo:/bin/bash
test1003test:/home/test:/bin/bash
[root@localhost ~]#

as you see "Ingo" its written with capital.
Could that cause the problem?
The Userdescription "Ingo M[ller" with the "ü" ="[" will not cause trouble, or?

I think i'll do a clean install wihtout capital and "ü" and than we'll see...what do you think?

[bigfoot65]

The capital letter should not match, but it could cause issues. When you do the chown command, try it with the capital letter and see if that works.

Reinstall should be a last resort. Let's try and fix the problem first.

[imgermany]

The chown command was accepted with the capital letter

Last login: Wed Jan 7 00:24:29 2015 from 192.168.1.201
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /var/hda/files
insgesamt 24
drwxr-xr-x. 6 Ingo Ingo 4096 5. Jan 23:12 .
drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root 4096 3. Jan 18:10 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 Ingo Ingo 4096 6. Jan 01:04 books
drwxrwxr-x 2 Ingo Ingo 4096 5. Jan 23:12 docs
drwxrwxr-x 2 Ingo Ingo 4096 3. Jan 20:04 tv
drwxrwxr-x 2 Ingo Ingo 4096 3. Jan 21:32 wdc1000
[root@localhost ~]#

Access to the shares is still the same problem. :-/

what next?

[bigfoot65]

You seem to have a real mess here. A reinstall might be best as much as I hate to admit it. Please ensure you follow http://docs.amahi.org.

I would recommend you pick a single name user, no capitalization or symbols. Then ensure you use a 6-8 character password at a minimum.

Sometimes its better to cut the loses early and just reinstall.

[imgermany]

i did the new install, now it looks good!

Accessing the shares works fine now.

I`m not sure wether it was because of the capitals - shall i do another testinstall to verifiy if that causes the error?

[bigfoot65]

Glad to hear it's working now. I would say if it's not broken don't mess with it. We will test an install with a user that has capitalization. Thanks for the offer though.