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Unable to activate SMB on Readynas 102
Hi there, I need some urgent help as I recently hard reset my Readynas 102 and while this process went ok and i reinstalled the 4.5TB of data I am now unable to activate SMB as a service.
I have read a lot of 'how to rectify this' posts on the community and searched extensively too. What i have done so far (which hasnt solved the issue):
- Defined through SSH that my smb.service Failed with result 'exit-code'
- Defined that it Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon
- Based on others having the same issue, Ive done an OS Reinstall on my system (which didnt rectify the issue)
Can anyone advise how to solve this WITHOUT having to do a full factory reset on my machine which i literally did only 2 weeks ago and it was painful due to so much data.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi phs989, you could downgrade or upgrade the firmware.
Depending on what OS-release you currently have installed you need to decide, what is possible. Please read the firmware release notes of the concerned releases for further information (https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Announcements-Stories/bd-p/readynas-release-notes). If both is possible, I would first downgrade and evaluate the result. If there is no improvement, you can upgrade then following the recommended sequence of new releases.
If you upgrade before trying to downgrade, depending on the release level you might not be able to downgrade.
You could also try beta software in the end finding the release notes here (https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-Beta/bd-p/readynas-beta-releases).
Good luck with fixing and kind regards.
Thanks Retired_Member appreciate your help but i couldnt downgrade - was already on 6.9.4 Hotfix 1 - so managed to upgrade to the Beta and now on 6.9.5 RC1.
Unfortunately the SMB is still not working and when i run a status command via SSH get the below. Any other help would be great!
root@phs989NAS:~# systemctl status -a smb
● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2019-01-07 21:16:42 AEDT; 2min 35s ago
Process: 3692 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 3692 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jan 07 21:16:38 phs989NAS systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Jan 07 21:16:42 phs989NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 07 21:16:42 phs989NAS systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Jan 07 21:16:42 phs989NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 07 21:16:42 phs989NAS systemd[1]: smb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
phs989 wrote: "so managed to upgrade to the Beta and now on 6.9.5 RC1. Unfortunately the SMB is still not working"
Well, next thing I would do is an OS-Reinstall, but you already did this. However you did this being on 6.9.4HF1, right? So it will not hurt to do that again with 6.9.5RC1, I assume.
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