process_usershare_file: stat of failed. Permission denied Samba

linux samba permission-denied ubuntu-14.04

The cause is that Samba does not synchronize its users with the system.This solved the issue in my case, on Kubuntu 14.10:

sudo apt-get install libpam-smbpasssudo service samba restart

If you don't want to synchronize users with PAM, simply add a user to Samba's password database:

sudo smbpasswd -a <user>

After that, the user will be able to open shared folders on the Samba machine.

linux samba permission-denied ubuntu-14.04

Your configuration file seems to be fine.

I reckon there might be a permission issue in your parent folder.

I suggest you check /home and /home/developer both have 755 rather than 750 permission.

Then check sudo -u nobody ls /home/developer/documents.

If ls is successful, the samba is likely to work as you expected as well

CodeHunter