Using a read-only samba share?

[parasiteoflife]

I'm using CIFS Provider to make a share accesible but read-only. When I go to "create" a volume in DroidFS I can browse and select the correct folder in the share but upon pressing "Create volume" I get an error about not having permission to write files.

Is it not possible to do this? I want to read the contents of an encrypted directory from my phone, I don't want to write anything to it.

Thanks!

[hardcore-sushi]

If the DroidFS's button shows "create volume" then the selected path is either empty, or is not a directory. If that's not the case, DroidFS may not have the required permissions to access the files. How to is your CIFS share mounted? Have you granted the "All files access" to DroidFS?

[parasiteoflife]

I'm using this https://github.com/wa2c/cifs-documents-provider with the read-only option. Yes, DroidFS has permission to manage all files, the resulting path when picking the provider and the path is /storage/%GUID%/%actual-samba-path%

I'm on Android 11.

[hardcore-sushi]

The share is exposed over the DocumentsProvider API, which is not supported by DroidFS. Please see #6, #25, #225 and the REAMDE.