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bheinz874
Oct 13, 2017Aspirant
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 ...
bheinz874
Oct 17, 2017Aspirant
Ok but I should be able to do a chown -r, which will run recursively, so not too ugly.
StephenB
Oct 17, 2017Guru - Experienced User
bheinz874 wrote:
Ok but I should be able to do a chown -r, which will run recursively, so not too ugly.
Some stuff is likely owned by admin, and not root. You also need to be careful on the mount points, since you don't want the shares to be owned by root.
- bheinz874Oct 17, 2017Aspirant
Good point.
I think at this point it's just going to be easier for me to make sure I have a current copy of everything on this thing and do a factory reset on it.
- StephenBOct 17, 2017Guru - Experienced User
That is of course a pain, but it is the direct way to ensure everything is correct.
Be careful when you reinstall apps - maybe check the permissions after each install.
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