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DennisBoom
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Mar 20, 2017
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smb.conf keeps getting corrupted

Recently my RN202 crashed. Only option to get it running again was to powercycle it. Since then I have troubles with running SMB. When I try to enable it in Frontview, it simply does not. I used ssh ...
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    Mar 21, 2017

    You can check what it currently looks like by doing e.g.

    # sqlite3 -column -header /var/readynasd/db.sq3 'SELECT * from service_cifs'

    If that field is set incorrectly this ought to do the trick:

    # sqlite3 /var/readynasd/db.sq3 'UPDATE service_cifs SET security="user"'

    Normally it's the config file that needs fixing not the database. We use the database to automatically repair broken configuration.

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