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Readynas 104 SMB won't activate
Been using it for almost 2 years and no problem.
All of suddent I can't enalbe SMB. Did a OS reinstallation, and upgrade to 6.9.4-T8, non of them helped.
I did some research and the only way is t...
I tried so:
apt-get remove samba samba-common smbclient swat samba-doc smbfs libpam-smbpass libsmbclient libsmbclient-dev winbind
This removes all samba-related packages.
Then:
apt-get install samba
Then reboot and:
systemctl status -a smb
give:
root@NAS:~# systemctl status -a smb ● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enab led) Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-05-19 16:30:45 MSK; 19min ago Main PID: 2219 (smbd) Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..." CGroup: /system.slice/smb.service ├─2219 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group ├─2325 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group ├─2326 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group ├─2355 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group └─3723 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group May 19 16:30:39 NAS systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon... May 19 16:30:45 NAS systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB Daemon. May 19 16:30:45 NAS smbd[2219]: [2018/05/19 16:30:45.997388, 0] ../lib/ util/become_daemon.c:124(daemon_ready) May 19 16:30:46 NAS smbd[2219]: STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to s
root@NAS:~# /etc/samba/smb.conf
-bash: /etc/samba/smb.conf: Permission denied
root@NAS:~#
How do I open this file?
Use an editor.
Try installing a simple editor like nano
> apt-get install nano
then
> nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
This file is auto-generated. Do not modify! [global] include = /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.defaults #dashboard: allow trusted domains = 0 dos charset = CP1252 hostname lookups = 0 map to guest = Bad User #dashboard:map untrusted to domain = no oplocks = 1 #dashboard:#dashboard:orgunit = #dashboard:#dashboard:no_sync_ads = 0 #dashboard:idmap config AOK : backend = rid #dashboard:idmap config AOK : range = 32768 - 2000000000 #dashboard: password server = * #dashboard: include system krb5 conf = 0 realm = security = user template homedir = /home/%U workgroup = AOK #dashboard: #dashboard:domain_admin_user = include = /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.%a include = /etc/frontview/samba/smb.conf.overrides include = /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf include = /etc/frontview/samba/Shares.conf.%G include = /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf include = /run/usb/samba/Shares.conf [homes] browseable = 0 writeable = 1 public = 0 valid users = %D\%S
What does
> systemctl status -a smb
Give you?
root@NAS:~# systemctl status -a smb ● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2018-05-19 15:24:40 MSK; 18min ago Process: 4337 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 4337 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) May 19 15:24:39 NAS systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon... May 19 15:24:40 NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE May 19 15:24:40 NAS systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. May 19 15:24:40 NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Unit entered failed state. May 19 15:24:40 NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. root@NAS:~#
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