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Home folder not visible over SMB
I have the NAS set up so that it creates a home folder for a user when first logged in. However, when I view the available shares through a file manager over SMB, I see all the other shares, but not ...
Use \\ReadyNAS\username resp. smb://ReadyNAS/username/ ... permitting the Linux file manager does automatically re-use the same credentials for all shared folders. Can't see anything wrong with your attempt...
[Edit] Are you using the same credentials for accessing the ReadyNAS shared folders by SMB? It's the first username used that is mapped to the internal /home/[username] folder when I have it right.
On the ReadyNAS admin page, head to System -> Logs -> Connections to check.
schumaku wrote:Use \\ReadyNAS\username resp. smb://ReadyNAS/username/ ... permitting the Linux file manager does automatically re-use the same credentials for all shared folders. Can't see anything wrong with your attempt...
The one in bold is the one I have been using. Works fine for all the other shares, but anything in home is unaccessible. It asks me for credentials every time, since I set it to forget them right after login, so I get prompted every time. That's how I know it's not a faulty credential reuse thing.
schumaku wrote:[Edit] Are you using the same credentials for accessing the ReadyNAS shared folders by SMB? It's the first username used that is mapped to the internal /home/[username] folder when I have it right.
Yes, I'm using the same credentials. When I try it on this folder though, it specifically reports the folder doesn't exist, after the failed login. Which is weird, since I verified its exitence.
schumaku wrote:On the ReadyNAS admin page, head to System -> Logs -> Connections to check.
The logs only show an SMB connection by the user 'guest'. Weird, since I logged in with another user.
Well, this is all designed around the Windows world, where only one user authentication can be around between one SMB client and the server.
Faustus wrote:
schumaku wrote:On the ReadyNAS admin page, head to System -> Logs -> Connections to check.
The logs only show an SMB connection by the user 'guest'. Weird, since I logged in with another user.
Suspect you are using some shared folders with the non-authenticated (aka. guest) access then. This might break the access to the home folder, as there isn't one for the guest account (that's the SAMBA-Linux mapping for a non-authenticated access). That's one of the reasons why newer WIndows builds by default no longer allow using the non-authenticated access. Ensure all shared folders you access are configured for access by a group (preferred for management simplicity) or a username.
schumaku wrote:Suspect you are using some shared folders with the non-authenticated (aka. guest) access then. This might break the access to the home folder, as there isn't one for the guest account (that's the SAMBA-Linux mapping for a non-authenticated access). That's one of the reasons why newer WIndows builds by default no longer allow using the non-authenticated access. Ensure all shared folders you access are configured for access by a group (preferred for management simplicity) or a username.
That's what I thought too. So I decided to try out authenticating before accessing the discovered shares, by using smb://user_name:*@server_name in Thunar. Using this you get prompted for the user password before it goes on to the shares. Doing that, I can finally see the share for that user, but I can still no mount it. When I click on it to mount, it prompts me for credentials again, before failing and declaring the folder doesn't exist. Whe I do it like this the logs show the username has a connection over SMB
I've also checked all the permission for the shares. They are all set to a specific group, anonymous access is disabled. Not that it matters, since I still can't mount it even if I see it while authenticated, and I can't set permissions for that folder (the OS doesn't allow setting permissions for the home folders in the web GUI). SSH confirms that the folder owner is correct, and has all permissions for it.
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