Beta [samba] Samba 3

[MymsMan]

Get rid of the mount in hotplug.cnf - I know it says "do not modify", but I think that's because any changes will get over-written if the package gets updated.

No it is recreated at boot time so any changes will be lost on next reboot

What would probably work is to edit mod/etc/smb.conf
remove the line include = /mod/etc/smb-hotplug.conf
copy the details for My Music from hotplug to smb.conf

Alternatively copy hotplug to another name and edit it, change the include line to point to the new file name.

Any change to the drives mounted in \media won't be accessible via smb but that is your choice.

 

[Black Hole]

So an S99 script could be used to put something else in its place and then restart the SMB service?

 

[xyz321]

No it is recreated at boot time so any changes will be lost on next reboot

...or if a new drive is plugged in/removed.

 

[MymsMan]

When looking at folders on the humax from windows I realised that symlinks were not being resolved

I found on the web the suggestion to add the following lines to smb.conf and it works:

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = yes
allow insecure wide links = yes

Unfortunately git on windows doesn't follow the links but that is another mystery to explore

 

[andyk]

Recently Microsoft has borked Windows (10 & 11) SMB1 access - a fix is in the works.

I thought it time to update samba to the beta version which supports SMB2. Having jumped through the beta hoops I successfully installed it. I kept my config file. Having restarted the server, I was able to access the Humax HDR as before. Hooray!

I then looked at the connection. That reported I was still using SMB1. Indeed if I remove SMB1 client from the Windows (10) machine, I can't access the Humax at all.

> Get-SmbConnection

ServerName ShareName UserName Credential Dialect NumOpens
---------- --------- -------- ---------- ------- --------
Ajk-desktop c AJK-DESKTOP\msajk MicrosoftAccount\ms.ajk@outlook.com 3.1.1 0
Ajk-desktop IPC$ AJK-DESKTOP\msajk MicrosoftAccount\ms.ajk@outlook.com 3.1.1 0
humax IPC$ AJK-DESKTOP\msajk AJK-DESKTOP\msajk 1.5 0
humax root AJK-DESKTOP\msajk AJK-DESKTOP\msajk 1.5 2

Although I've solved my immediate problem, I was expecting to be able to connect using SMB2.
Is there some configuration I need to apply to get the Humax to connect using SMB2? Or should it happen automatically?

 

[prpr]

Is there some configuration I need to apply to get the Humax to connect using SMB2? Or should it happen automatically?

My smb.conf has no significant change from the one distributed in the package and it shows as Dialect 2.0.2 from this Win10 machine.

I kept my configfile

You mean your one from the previous package? If so, why? That's probably the problem.