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PeterW2017
Sep 26, 2017Aspirant
Readynas 104 SMB won't activate
Been using it for almost 2 years and no problem. All of suddent I can't enalbe SMB and SSH. Just now I can enable SSH but SMB still not activating. Did a OS reinstallation, and upgrade to 6.8.1, non...
- Sep 27, 2017
Remote check your NAS, permission changed to guest, so smb can't start,
I chenged them to root, then SMB start successfully.
Please try to access your NAS again via SMB.
root@NETGEARnass:/var/lib/samba# ls
account_policy.tdb group_mapping.tdb private registry.tdb share_info.tdb
root@NETGEARnass:/var/lib/samba# ls -al
total 1772
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 27 2012 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 26 23:12 ..
-rw------- 1 guest guest 421888 Oct 2 2015 account_policy.tdb
-rw------- 1 guest guest 430080 Oct 4 2015 group_mapping.tdb
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 21 2012 private
-rw------- 1 guest guest 528384 Oct 2 2015 registry.tdb
-rw------- 1 guest guest 421888 Oct 2 2015 share_info.tdb
PeterW2017
Sep 27, 2017Aspirant
Hi the command is not working...
root@NETGEARnass:~# /var/lib/samba# ls -l
-bash: /var/lib/samba#: No such file or directory
evan2
Sep 27, 2017NETGEAR Expert
Remote check your NAS, permission changed to guest, so smb can't start,
I chenged them to root, then SMB start successfully.
Please try to access your NAS again via SMB.
root@NETGEARnass:/var/lib/samba# ls
account_policy.tdb group_mapping.tdb private registry.tdb share_info.tdb
root@NETGEARnass:/var/lib/samba# ls -al
total 1772
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 27 2012 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Sep 26 23:12 ..
-rw------- 1 guest guest 421888 Oct 2 2015 account_policy.tdb
-rw------- 1 guest guest 430080 Oct 4 2015 group_mapping.tdb
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 21 2012 private
-rw------- 1 guest guest 528384 Oct 2 2015 registry.tdb
-rw------- 1 guest guest 421888 Oct 2 2015 share_info.tdb
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