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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.
Several folders are owned by guest, some by root:
root@Heinz-Home-NAS:/# ls -l total 80 drwxrwxr-x 1 guest guest 140 Oct 14 16:31 apps drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:49 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 17 2012 boot -rwxrwxrwx 1 guest guest 0 Oct 31 2014 cp_check_md5sums.sh drwxrwxrwx 1 guest guest 254 Mar 31 2017 data drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 3360 Oct 13 17:50 dev drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 4096 Oct 17 05:52 etc drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:50 frontview -rwxrwxrwx 1 guest guest 0 Aug 23 2015 ftp_ban.tbl drwxr-xr-x 1 guest guest 32 Jan 12 2015 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 guest guest 5 Dec 17 2013 homes -> /home drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:49 lib drwxrwxrwx 2 guest guest 16384 Oct 30 2013 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 2012 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 29 2016 mnt drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 28 12:15 opt dr-xr-xr-x 177 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 proc drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:49 root drwxrwxr-x 27 root admin 940 Oct 17 05:52 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:49 sbin drwxrwxrwx 2 guest guest 4096 Jun 10 2012 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 17 2012 srv dr-xr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Oct 13 17:50 sys drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Oct 17 05:52 tmp drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 28 12:15 usr drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Oct 13 17:49 var root@Heinz-Home-NAS:/#
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