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Samba 3.6.25 build for ReadyNAS NV+ v2
My brother was having difficulties connecting to his ReadyNAS from his work laptop running Win10, and asked if I could enable SMB2 on his NAS (he couldn't install SMB1 compatibility as the laptop is ...
I get the dreaded "Unknown server error" when I try to upload this to my Duo V2. But that may not be a fault with the package itself.
The message "Unknown server error" is because You use Chrome or newer browser.
Try using older Internet Explorer and it works.
p-tr wrote:The message "Unknown server error" is because You use Chrome or newer browser.
Try using older Internet Explorer and it works.
Not in this case.
I tried installing using edge and got the server error.
I then tried using internet explorer as directed and it installed fine.
HOWEVER
I cannot access the shares from my windows 10 laptop.
I tried all sorts of things to fix it but the only way I can access the shares is to enable smb1 in windows.
The addon tells me it installed correctly and when i click on it everything seems ok but i have no access to the shares.
I installed ssh and dug around inside the usr/sbin folder and found that the addon seemed to have changed smbd and nmbd to .orig files and the new ones are linked to usr/local/sbin
And the files smbd and nmbd seem to both be in usr/local/sbinso it seems the addon done its job but something is wrong ???
If i disable the addon and turn smb off and back on again from the web interface and try to connect to the share using windows then windows pops up and says i cant connect because its smb1.
I then re-enable the addon and windows just says
attempting to connect for ages then says it cant access the share try checking the name or there might be a problem with your network.
(the same happens if i turn smb off and back on from the web interface after enabling the addon) (and the same happens if i restart the whole unit)
If I disable the addon but DO NOT turn smb off and on from the web interface i get the same message saying attempting to connect for ages and then windows can't access the share, check the spelling etc..
And as i said above if i turn smb off and back on after disabling the addon from the web interface and try connecting again it now says it can't connect because it smb1.
If you have ssh access, it might be easiest to check the following with the plugin installed and SMB2 enabled:
1) if the smbd daemon is running: "ps -ef | grep smbd", should show one or more:
root 1955 1 0 Nov15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 1981 1955 0 Nov15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D
root 7264 1955 0 08:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -D2) the Samba logs: "more /var/log/samba/log.smbd", should include something like:
[2020/11/15 17:28:16, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)
smbd version 3.6.25 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-20113) try local client to confirm daemon is working: "smbclient -N -L //readynas" (replace readynas with your server name), should display a list of your shares.
4) make sure SMB2 include files are being loaded:
"grep include /etc/samba/smb.conf" should have "include = /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf" on the list
"grep include /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf" should have "include = /etc/frontview/samba/addons/SAMBA36.conf" as output
"cat /etc/frontview/samba/addons/SAMBA36.conf" should contain:
[global]
# enable SMB2 support
max protocol = SMB25) If all that looks ok, then you can also try running smbd directly with debug output.
stop current daemon: "/etc/init.d/samba stop"
start samba directly: "/usr/bin/smbd -i -d 1"
... then try to connect from Win10 (-i makes it quit after 1 connection though!)
Something on that list should give you a good idea of what's not working :)
Good luck,
Scott
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