Unable to access contents using a windows computer of a network shared rclone mounted Google drive stored on a Raspberry Pi

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Using a windows computer I am attempting to access the contents of a network shared rclone mounted Google drive I have stored on a raspberry pi 3 but I have been unsuccessful. I have turned on a Samba share for the Google Drive folder.

According to my search it seems others have been successful in achieving this but I have not had the same luck.

Rclone and Samba - Help and Support - rclone forum

I am trying to see if there is a rclone command with specific flags I can type into the raspberry pi terminal to get everything working.

The following steps I have taken so far are:

  1. Updated raspberry pi OS to latest release of Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) using commands
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt full-upgrade

  2. Installed rclone

  3. Created credentials and successfully mounted a Google drive

I have attached a screen shot of the successfully mounted google drive as seen using the Raspberry Pi. The name I gave the mount is GoogleDrive. I believe it is located under $HOME/mnt on the Raspberry Pi

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  1. Enabled Samba network folder sharing of folder that contains the mounted Google drive sharing

I also have webmin installed on the Raspberry Pi if I need to use it for more complicated Samba share settings

I cannot view the contents of the share mnt folder when trying to access from a windows computer

However, I am able to access other shared folders on the Raspberry Pi using a windows computer, so I know the Samba share is working.

  1. I tried running the following command to see if the files would show up when accessing using Windows computer but this has not worked either.
rclone mount GoogleDrive: /home/pi/mnt/GoogleDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes --daemon --allow-other --allow-root

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.66.0

  • os/version: raspbian 10.13
  • os/kernel: 5.10.103-v7+ (armv7l)
  • os/type: linux
  • os/arch: arm (ARMv7 compatible)
  • go/version: go1.22.1
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount GoogleDrive: /home/pi/mnt/GoogleDrive --vfs-cache-mode writes --daemon --allow-other --allow-root

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

[GoogleDrive]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive =
### Double check the config for sensitive info before posting publicly

A log from the command that you were trying to run with the -vv flag


2024/04/29 20:49:27 ERROR : Daemon timed out. Failed to terminate daemon pid 1510: os: process already finished
2024/04/29 20:49:27 Fatal error: daemon exited with error code 1
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welcome to the forum,

i have shared rclone mountpoints over samba.
it should work for you.
so need more basic info...

for testing, try running rclone without --daemon
use a debug log file
--log-level=DEBUG --log-file=/path/to/rclone.log

can you share the samba section for the net share from smb.conf ?

i used to use webmin, as in https://forum.rclone.org/t/solved-is-it-possible-to-access-my-rclone-mount-as-a-samba-share/18335/14?u=asdffdsa
but now, i just edit smb.conf

on windows, how are you creating the net share.
using windows explorer, net share on cmd, or what?
what is the exact error you are getting?

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Hi and thank you for you reply. Here are some replies for you questions

can you share the samba section for the net share from smb.conf ?

[PiShare]
 comment=Raspberry Pi Share
 path=/home/pi/Music
 browseable=Yes
 writeable=Yes
 only guest=no
 create mask=0777
 directory mask=0777
 public=no





[GoogleDrive Share]
        sync always = yes
        path = /mnt
        writeable = yes

on windows, how are you creating the net share.
using windows explorer, net share on cmd, or what?
what is the exact error you are getting?

I am just using Windows Explorer.

I have attached a screenshot. As you can see, I cannot view the contents of the share mnt folder when trying to access from a windows computer

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the samba share is mounted, that is correct?

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Yes the samba share is mounted. The raspberry pi has rclone, and I used rclone to mount the google drive. then I enabled samba sharing on that mount so that different windows computers can try to access the mount on that raspberry pi over the network.

As a side note, I am able to access other shared folders on the Raspberry Pi over my network using the windows explorer windows computer.
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great. everything seems to be working fine, no errors.

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the rclone mountpoint is /home/pi/mnt/GoogleDrive
so you need samba to share that exact dir

something like

[sharename]
path=/home/pi/mnt/GoogleDrive
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Hi. Ok I tried what you suggested and updated the following to the smb.conf

[GoogleDrive Share]
        sync always = yes
        path = /home/pi/mnt/GoogleDrive
        writeable = yes

I tried accessing the share using windows explorer but now I get the following message
image

I am not sure what to do now.

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ok, good.

need to click details and post that including the error number.

not sure.

imho, fwiw, as a long-time windowz user trying to work on linux, i learned the hard way.
never use space characters for names and/or paths, always use one case, lower or upper.
so, could change [GoogleDrive Share] to [google_drive]

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Yeah thanks for the tip. I have zero experience with Linux haha. Just trying my best to inform myself.

I changed the name as you suggested and still got same error. But now clicked to get details and got error code 0x80070035
image

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I'm going to have to figure out what causes that code.

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most likely, windows cannot find the server or else the share.
try using ipaddress instead.

have you seen my howto?
https://forum.rclone.org/t/how-to-access-smb-samba-with-rclone/42754/2

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I tried the following
image

Still no success.

I think I ran into your guide while researching my problem. I will try to follow it. Maybe I might add a new mount of the google drive but rename it to all lower
case letters (googledrive instead of GoogleDrive).

Thanks for all the suggestions you have given so far.

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good, seems that net use worked.
it found the server, it found the share.

try net use on one of those shared folders.
will ensure the username and password are correct.

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I did. The usename and password works for the other shared folders the raspberry pi.
image

I tried remaking a new mount called gdrive instead of GoogleDrive and tried a Samba share over the network. That didn't work as well unfortunately. Still get the same error.

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can you post the top thirty lines from the rclone debug log.

this is an working samba config.

[zork]
    path = /rclone/mount/zork
    valid users = @agent_en10
    writable = yes

this is the rclone command
sudo -u user01 -g agent_en10 rclone mount ....

this is the net use command, running over tailscale.

net use \\100.73.41.101\zork /user:agent_en10 redacted
The command completed successfully.
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I finally got it to work!

image

So what I did so far was correct. The missing part of the solution was spelled out in the following forum thread:

Solved Is it possible to access my Rclone mount as a Samba share? - Help and Support - rclone forum

When I mounted the drive, I had to add the flag --allow-other

So the mount command I used is

rclone mount gdrive: $HOME/mnt/gdrive --allow-other

When I initially tried the command with the --allow-other flag it gave me an error stating the flag has to be in the fuse.conf file as well.

So I had to add user_allow_other to the fuse.conf file in Raspbian OS. I had google Gemini give me instructions on how to do that.

I also tried to add the flag --allow-root to the mount command but I got an error stating it is not permitted anymore.

Thanks for all your help asdffdsa! I really appreciate it!

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good that all is working now.

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