<p>Device-independent quantum secret sharing (DI QSS) provides the highest security level for QSS. Existing DI QSS protocols require the generation of multi-partite entanglement and the long-distance entanglement distribution. The extremely low generation efficiency of current multi-partite entanglement sources (∼ 10⁻⁸) and photon transmission loss largely limit DI QSS’s practical key generation efficiency and secure photon transmission distance (less than 1 km). In the paper, we propose a highly efficient long-distance DI QSS protocol based on the single-photon source (SPS) and cold-atom quantum memories. It adopts the single photons and photon-atom interactions in quantum memories to construct long-distance multi-partite atomic entanglement. Our protocol can automatically eliminate the influence from photon transmission loss on the secure key rate by the heralded architecture and close the detection loophole by the atomic measurement. We also adopt the random key generation basis and noise preprocessing strategies to reduce the experimental requirement. The whole protocol is feasible under current experimental conditions. Compared with previous DI QSS protocols based on entanglement sources, our DI QSS protocol can increase the practical key generation efficiency by six orders of magnitude, and largely increase the secure photon transmission distance. It provides a possible approach to realize a highly efficient long-distance DI network in the near future.</p>