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How to access actual samba configuration
I've seen a lot of talk. But no answers, on accessing SMB and other configurations on this unit. How do you SEE what is inside the system? Can I connect a monitor and keyboard? Is there a bash termin...
Steedvlx600 wrote:
Is there a bash terminal to access?
The answer to this particular question is not hard to find - http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30068
Enable ssh on system->services. Putty or Winscp (windows) or Terminal (OSX) can then ssh into the NAS. Username is "root", password is the NAS admin password.
While you could try to edit the smb .conf files, that could create trouble later on - firmware upgrades or OS reinstalls might reset them, as might other configuration changes via the web ui.
Adjusting permissions, owners, groups is certainly doable.
I don't access the NAS from linux PCs, so I don't have hands-on experience with linux SMB clients and how they handle credentials. Windows by default presents the credentials that were used to log into the windows account, this behavior is changed by setting credentials in the windows credential manager.
Certainly turning off anonymous access for each share in the admin web ui works. Accessing the /data volume itself requires use of the NAS admin credentials, and will show you a "home" folder, that has the user "private" home folders inside. There are some other hidden folders in /data - including .apps.
If you use a specific user account when accessing the NAS, you will see that user's home folder in the main share list.
Note you could also mount shares (and home folders) with NFS (but you cannot mount the full data volume that way).
Thank you for the reply. SSH would be a last ditch effort only if absolutely necessary. I don't even know that it is a permissions problem or smb.conf problem at this point. (I thought it was) But, if that were the case, then no other system would be able to see the home folders either.
But, as you said, disabling anonymous access SHOULD force a prompt for credentials... Yet, it doesn't for the home folders. Additionally, the NAS rejects any attempt to mount at /data point via Samba. No matter what creds are used.
It (Nautilus) DOES this for the default folders. It displays them nicely. And, selecting one will bring up a nice prompt for credentials, which is them appropriately honored.The problem is that no matter how I try to mount the server... I cannot get it to show me the home folder. And, ReadyNAS is rejecting admin credentials submitted during this process. It will only accept my user-class credentials.
Thank you for taking the time to help.Have you changed the admin password away from the default one yet? If not try changing the admin password.
Yes. I am not using the default password... However, could the password be "too long" for linux to pass?
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