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ma33axaka
Aspirant
May 19, 2018
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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...
Installation & Upgrade
  • ma33axaka's avatar
    ma33axaka
    May 19, 2018

    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

     

ma33axaka's avatar
ma33axaka
Aspirant
May 19, 2018
 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
Giggos's avatar
Giggos
Aspirant
May 19, 2018

What does

> systemctl status -a smb

Give you?

 

  • ma33axaka's avatar
    ma33axaka
    Aspirant
    May 19, 2018
    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:~#
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    May 19, 2018

    Also check the OS partition fullness, as a filling partition can cause a number of quirky issues.

     

    df // -h and df // -i are the two commands.  Normally the OS partition has  about 70% free space and around 98% free inodes.

    • ma33axaka's avatar
      ma33axaka
      Aspirant
      May 19, 2018
      root@NAS:~# df // -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0        3.7G  643M  2.9G  19% /
root@NAS:~# df // -i
Filesystem      Inodes IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/md0       1048576 14436 1034140    2% /
root@NAS:~#
    • Giggos's avatar
      Giggos
      Aspirant
      May 19, 2018

      Let's also check permissions.

      >cd /var/lib/samba

      >ls -al

       

      • ma33axaka's avatar
        ma33axaka
        Aspirant
        May 19, 2018
        root@NAS:~# cd /var/lib/samba
root@NAS:/var/lib/samba# ls -al
total 1772
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 May 19 15:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root   4096 May 19 15:18 ..
-rw-------  1 root root 421888 May 19 15:19 account_policy.tdb
-rw-------  1 root root 430080 May 19 15:20 group_mapping.tdb
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 May 19 15:19 private
-rw-------  1 root root 528384 May 19 15:19 registry.tdb
-rw-------  1 root root 421888 May 19 15:19 share_info.tdb
root@NAS:/var/lib/samba# private
-bash: private: command not found
root@NAS:/var/lib/samba# cd private
root@NAS:/var/lib/samba/private# ls -al
total 844
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 May 19 15:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 May 19 15:19 ..
drwx------ 2 root root   4096 May 19 15:23 msg.sock
-rw------- 1 root root 421888 May 19 15:19 passdb.tdb
-rw------- 1 root root 430080 May 19 15:19 secrets.tdb
root@NAS:/var/lib/samba/private#

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