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Beta [samba] Samba 3

peterworks said:
I am unable to get this to work when I update the smb.conf-opkg with my own workgroup name (and change it to smb.conf). I get a Microsoft log on screen.
I have tried removing the # from guest account = root and guest ok = yes but no go.
(On Windows 10)
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What are you specifying as the Share name?
Did you restart the Samba server (Services menu) after updating the smb.conf file
If you specify \\humax (or your humaxes name/ip address) and then browse does it show a list of available shares? (My Video, My Music etc)
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My share name is H1 and it can be seen on the network when I browse for folder (as per your example). When I try to open it I get:
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I have restarted my PC and the Humax and, yes, I did stop/start the Samba service
 
For info here is my updated smb.conf file:
Code: 
[global]
   load printers = no
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = /dev/null
   disable spoolss = yes
#   guest account = root
#   guest ok = yes
   security = user
   encrypt passwords = yes
   null passwords = yes
   server string = Samba HDR-Fox-T2
   workgroup = SEAVIEW
   netbios name = %h
   case sensitive = yes
   preserve case = yes
   short preserve case = yes
   hosts allow = 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 172.16.0.0/255.240.0.0 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0
   dos charset = ASCII
   max protocol = SMB2

# The directories under /media are auto-generated and added to the included
# file. Any additional shares which are not under /media should be added 
# to this file (/mod/etc/smb.conf).

include = /mod/etc/smb-hotplug.conf

## Removed since it may appear as a small disk on the client
#[Media]
#   comment = Media
#   path = /media
##   public = yes
#   writable = yes
#   browsable = yes
#   create mask = 0644
#   directory mask = 0755
#   hide dot files = no
 
Try right clicking on 'This PC', and select Add Network Location or Map Network Drive and give the location as \\<ip address>\My Video.
 
I can't make this work for inter-Fox shares.

Normally my HD-FOX has network-shares-automount access set up by SMB to the three HDR-FOXes. Now I can only "see" HDR3, which did not have the beta samba installed.

HDR1 had a customised smb.conf, so I backed that up and replaced it with smb.conf-opkg, and returned the share settings to folder=My Video (ie nominal; avoiding the special share point I previously had set up in smb.conf. However, this has not made it work.

Looking through the beta smb.conf:
Code: 
# The directories under /media are auto-generated and added to the included
# file. Any additional shares which are not under /media should be added
# to this file (/mod/etc/smb.conf).
...so it should have worked with my special share point, which is a folder under /media. Access from the iPad (File Explorer app) confirms this, it can see all the folders and mounts under /media.

The only other thing I can think of is that the current CF version of cifs (2.6.18) is not compatible with this Samba3 beta. Why would that be? SMB1?

PS: I transplanted my root share from the "old" smb.conf, and have confirmed I can now see it from File Explorer. Still no-show from the HD-FOX.
 
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Ditto HDR4. For whatever reason the smb.conf which comes with the beta has the Media share commented out (not a good idea – it was enabled in the non-beta, so you are presuming nobody uses it by removing it), so I have had to un-comment it and verify I can see it from File Explorer... but again this did not made my HD-FOX NSA link to HDR4 show up.

So I removed the samba beta, removed smb.cifs, removed opkg-beta, re-installed samba... and the HDR4 share has returned on the HD-FOX as normal.

I think this is pretty conclusive evidence that samba 3.6.25-1 (β) is not compatible with cifs 2.6.18 (or perhaps the way NSA uses cifs).

Good job I did decide to test it!
 
It worked for me when I used it to transfer files between two boxes. I can not remember if if tried it with a null password but it definitely works if you add username=root,password=<password> to the cifs options.
 
password=<password> is not an acceptable string in modsettings, the defaults are user=User and password=Password. I take it you don't use NSA (network-shares-automount). If you mean some cifs.conf, where is it?

Regardless, this needs to work out-of-the-box.
 
Update to post 29: In the 'Enter network credentials' screen I tried putting username as root and left the password blank and it worked okay.
 
prpr said:
It's blank/empty, as detailed above.
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OK, well I've tried (in [Modsettings]) user=root and password=, but to no effect. Any other suggestions before I revert?

The other thing is that I do not need to supply any credentials when accessing the SMB from File Explorer - just login with blanks.
 
Yes I have tried that but get an error message (something like username/password invalid).
I have also found that if I turn off Windows 10 smb1 client the shares disappear.
 
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