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Campus's avatar
Campus
Luminary
Oct 07, 2015

SMB Plus probably destroyed my 6.2.4 installation

Hi,   two days ago I tried the SMB Plus addon and after testing it I uninstalled. This uninstall came up with an error message. I ignored this error. Then I had to restart the machine and now my sa...
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kohdee's avatar
kohdee
NETGEAR Expert
Oct 08, 2015

SMB Plus makes changes to an overrides file, so its functionality is very limited in the grand scheme of things. On uninstall of SMB Plus, the overrides file is not manipulated.  On OS Reinstall, the overrides file is not touched, so I don't believe this was your problem.

Campus's avatar
Campus
Luminary
Oct 08, 2015

Thanks for your explanation. Could you please point me to the override file so I can manually remove it from the machine?

 

Best,

Campus

 

  • kohdee's avatar
    kohdee
    NETGEAR Expert
    Oct 08, 2015

    It's /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.overrides

    • Campus's avatar
      Campus
      Luminary
      Oct 08, 2015

      That file does not exist on my machine. Hmmm. Could the firmware re-install be responsible for removing this file?

      • kohdee's avatar
        kohdee
        NETGEAR Expert
        Oct 08, 2015

        The OS reinstall overwrites existing simple config files that are system generated, but does not overwrite or remove this file. 

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