Today it is time to use Samba for USB Drives sharing.
Mounting USB Drive
1. Create new directory where your drive will be mounted
sudo mkdir /media/usbHDD sudo chmod 744 /media/usbHDD
2. List your storage devices and save UUID of your drive
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
(Update) more readable command:
sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL or sudo blkid
3. Mount that drive to /media/usbHDD, use proper user and group (uid, guid), adjust drive path
sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /media/usb
4. Edit fstab
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and add line with UUID of your drive
UUID=18A9-9943 /media/usbHDD vfat auto,nofail,noatime,users,rw 0 0
5. Verify if drive is mounted
ls -l /media/usbHDD
restart and verify if drive is mounted after reboot
sudo reboot now ls -l /media/usbHDD
Update:
If you have problems with auto mount you may need to install:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse or sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
You may also need to change partition type in command in fstab file from vfat to ntfs
Installing Samba
The process of installation is very simple
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin