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Can't enable SMB on RN102 running 6.8.1
I cannot enable SMB in the system settings on my RN102. I can access the shares with AFP (MacOS) and NFS (Debian Linux) clients, but not SMB (Windows 10). When I go to Settings -> Services, click on ...
I found some information by running journalctl -xe:
Oct 13 19:15:41 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon... -- Subject: Unit smb.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit smb.service has begun starting up. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon. -- Subject: Unit smb.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit smb.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS wsdd2[6358]: Terminated received. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS wsdd2[6358]: Terminated received. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS wsdd2[6358]: cannot read netbios name from testparm Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Unit entered failed state. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS wsdd2[6358]: cannot read netbios name from testparm Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Oct 13 19:15:45 Heinz-Home-NAS systemd[1]: Stopping WSD/LLMNR Discovery/Name Service Daemon... -- Subject: Unit wsdd2.service has begun shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Hopefully that makes sense to someone.
What is the system's hostname?
Heinz-Home-NAS is the hostname. I tried changing it to just NAS, still won't start. I can turn on and off everything else, just SMB is giving me trouble.
Can you look in the OS partition and see if there are files that are owned by guest:guest?
Some (badly written) app installs can do this, and it has created similar symptoms for some folks.
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