When I was troubleshooting connecting to my homeserver, I tried sharing a drive using Properties > Share to see if Samba was working correctly, but I accidentally closed Dolphin and therefore didn’t add myself to the group so I wasn’t able to change the password and now I don’t know how to remove it. Is there any way to delete the shared folder?
Go back to Properties > Share on the folder you shared and un-share it.
should I try removing and reinstalling samba?
No that won’t have any effect.
Make the permission changes it asks you to make, and then you can disable the share.
It’s not letting me change the permissions though, and I’m pretty new to Linux so I don’t know how to add myself to the group through the terminal
In what way? What does it do or say when you try to change the permissions?
I get an error that reads “Could not change permissions for: /media/obsidian. All permission changes have been reverted to initial state.”
Shown in screenshot of a previous reply.
I don’t know if running Dolphin as administrator would work in this case - but at the very least, if you’re running on most mainstream Linux distributions the following terminal command (in Konsole) should set the permission that’s stated to be needed:
sudo chmod o+x /media/obsidian
sudo: Run the following command as the root user, so you have permissions to do (mostly) anything
chmod: Change permissions
o+x: The first parameter to chmod, this one in particular tells it to grant “**others" (users who neither own themselves, nor are members of the group that owns, a file or directory) the permission to "ex**ecute” - for a directory, that just means the ability to list the contents of the directory
/media/obsidian: The path you want
Running that command did not fix the issue. Apologies for the delay.