Gonna need the contents of fstab and smb.conf again.
plus the output from
ls -l /mnt
and
ls -l /mnt/NAS-20GB
and
ls -l /mnt/NAS-200GB
fstab:
[spoiler]# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
Use ‘blkid -o value -s UUID’ to print the universally unique identifier
for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/ was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=ff0a5255-09f5-4b23-a2d2-8db9cebc726d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=652469de-ef92-47ea-8e42-25deb43687fe none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/NAS-200GB ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/NAS-20GB ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
[/spoiler]
smb.conf
[spoiler]#
Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
are not shown in this example
Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
commented-out examples in this file.
- When such options are commented with “;”, the proposed setting
differs from the default Samba behaviour
- When commented with “#”, the proposed setting is the default
behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
enough to be mentioned here
NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
“testparm” to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
errors.
A well-established practice is to name the original file
“smb.conf.maste r” and create the “real” config file with
testparm -s smb.conf.maste r >smb.conf
This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file
which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance
However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested
“include” statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case
where using a master file is not a good idea.
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
unix charset = UTF-8
Browsing/Identification
Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
wins support = no
WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z
This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
Networking
The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
interface names are normally preferred
interfaces = 192.168.0.8/24 eth0
Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
‘interfaces’ option above to use this.
It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this
option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
; bind interfaces only = yes
Debugging/Accounting
This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
max log size = 1000
If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
parameter to ‘yes’.
syslog only = no
We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
syslog = 0
Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
####### Authentication #######
“security = user” is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
in this server for every user accessing the server. See
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
in the samba-doc package for details.
security = share
You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on
‘encrypt passwords’ in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
encrypt passwords = true
If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
password database type you are using.
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
passdb is changed.
unix password sync = yes
For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de for
sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = Enter\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n Retype\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n password\supdated\ssuccessfully .
This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
‘passwd program’. The default is ‘no’.
pam password change = yes
This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
to anonymous connections
map to guest = bad user
########## Domains ###########
Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
change the ‘domain master’ setting to no
; domain logons = yes
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of the user’s profile directory
from the client point of view)
The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the
samba server (see below)
; logon path = \%N\profiles%U
Another common choice is storing the profile in the user’s home directory
(this is Samba’s default)
logon path = \%N%U\profile
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of a user’s home directory (from the client
point of view)
; logon drive = H:
logon home = \%N%U
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored
in the [netlogon] share
NOTE: Must be store in ‘DOS’ file format convention
; logon script = logon.cmd
This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix
This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the
SAMR RPC pipe.
The following assumes a “machines” group exists on the system
; add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c “%u machine account” -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe.
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g
########## Printing ##########
If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
than setting them up individually then you’ll need this
load printers = yes
lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
printcap file
; printing = bsd
; printcap name = /etc/printcap
CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
cupsys-client package.
; printing = cups
; printcap name = cups
############ Misc ############
Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
of the machine that is connecting
; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m
Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
for details
You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/linpopup “%f” “%m” %s; rm %s’ &
Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
must set this to ‘no’; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
domain master = auto
Some defaults for winbind (make sure you’re not using the ranges
for something else.)
; idmap uid = 10000-20000
; idmap gid = 10000-20000
; template shell = /bin/bash
The following was the default behaviour in sarge,
but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce
performance issues in large organizations.
See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of not
having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.
; winbind enum groups = yes
; winbind enum users = yes
Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
with the net usershare command.
Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
; usershare max shares = 100
Allow users who’ve been granted usershare privileges to create
public shares, not just authenticated ones
usershare allow guests = yes
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
user’s home directory as \server\username
;[homes]
; comment = Home Directories
; browseable = no
By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
next parameter to ‘no’ if you want to be able to write to them.
; read only = yes
File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; create mask = 0700
Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; directory mask = 0700
By default, \server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter
to make sure that only “username” can connect to \server\username
This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
; valid users = %S
Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/samba/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; read only = yes
; share modes = no
Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store
users profiles (see the “logon path” option above)
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
The path below should be writable by all users so that their
profile directory may be created the first time they log on
;[profiles]
; comment = Users profiles
; path = /home/samba/profiles
; guest ok = no
; browseable = no
; create mask = 0600
; directory mask = 0700
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
printer drivers
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
You may need to replace ‘lpadmin’ with the name of the group your
admin users are members of.
Please note that you also need to set appropriate Unix permissions
to the drivers directory for these users to have write rights in it
; write list = root, @lpadmin
A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server’s CD-ROM
; read only = yes
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; guest ok = yes
The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
an entry like this:
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
If you don’t want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
is mounted on /cdrom
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
NAS-20GB added by BkS
[Wallpapers]
comment = Wallpapers Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-20GB/share
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
NAS-200GB added by BkS
[Share]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-200GB/share
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777[/spoiler]
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /mnt total 8 drwx------ 4 bks bks 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 NAS-200GB drwx------ 4 bks bks 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 NAS-20GB
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /mnt/NAS-20GB total 20 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2012-04-14 13:05 lost+found drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 share
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /mnt/NAS-200GB total 20 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2012-04-14 13:08 lost+found drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 share
:-\
OK, let’s try this:-
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
and change
# NAS-20GB added by BkS
[Wallpapers]
comment = Wallpapers Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-20GB/share
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
# NAS-200GB added by BkS
[Share]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-200GB/share
available = yes
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
to
# NAS-20GB added by BkS
[Wallpapers]
comment = Wallpapers Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-20GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
# NAS-200GB added by BkS
[Share]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-200GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
SAVE smb.conf
reboot both machines … and try again.
[EDIT]
If that doesn’t work … leave it like that … and send the output from
ls -l /home
and
mount
Can’t access them again. Same errors.
Failed to mount Windows share
The specified location is not mounted
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /home total 8 drwxr-xr-x 27 bks bks 4096 2012-04-15 17:57 bks drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2012-04-15 22:45 share
bks@bally-server:~$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/NAS-200GB type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/NAS-20GB type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
Hmm … that should be working ??? … everything is set up exactly the way the original /home/share which worked ???
Gimme a while to test whether it’s sambs not liking the “-” in the file names NAS-20GB and NAS-200GB
I know it didn’t like them when I tested sommat like smb:// 172.16.0.2/test-directory (kept getting replaced with smb://172.16.0.2/test%25directory … or similar)
maybe it doesn’t like then in the “path =” line either.
I’ll get back to you shortly.
First, it’s NOT the “-” in the path as I wondered earlier ???
I’m now somewhat baffled as to why that doesn’t work …
I just created
/mnt/NAS-20GB/share
and
/mnt/NAS-200GB/share
on my 11.10 box … made them both (777) writeable by everyone.
put:-
# NAS-20GB added by BkS
[Wallpapers]
comment = Wallpapers Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-20GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
# NAS-200GB added by BkS
[Share]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-200GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
in my smb.conf
REBOOTED the server.
REBOOTED the PeppermintOS netbook
Now if (on the netbook) I open pcmanfm and enter smb://172.16.0.2/
I can see (and write to) “Share” and “Wallpapers”
so it SHOULD be working on your system. ???
did you reboot BOTH the server and laptop ?
have you tried accessing the shares on another PC … to rule out your Peppermint PC as the culprit ?
Quick question ,
When I ask for the contents of fstab, smb.conf, etc, … you ARE getting them from the server aren’t you, and not just cobbling then together from what’s been posted earlier ?
Yes I rebooted both. I’ve tried on my brothers Ubuntu box and my mums partners Win7 box. Both of them can’t access the directories either.
Yeah I’m getting them from terminal.
OK … lets go through this one step at a time.
I know I’ve asked for them before, but post the contents of:-
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
and
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and the output from:
mount
and
ls -l /mnt/NAS-20GB
and
ls-l /mnt/NAS-200GB
and
sudo fdisk -l
can you also try this:
mkdir /mnt/NAS-200GB/share/testdir
I just want to know if this works.
Meanwhile … I’ll test if the fstab entries make a difference by formatting a USB stick as ext3 and mounting it from fstab as /mnt/NAS-200GB then creating a dir on it called share … in the same way as you are, and see what happens.
Try this:
sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/NAS-20GB
sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/NAS-200GB
Reboot NAS and see if that makes any difference
Yup … listen to SeZo … I just made the same setup with a USB stick, and the directory was unreadable, till I -
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/NAS-200GB
then it WAS readable.
Still dunno why it needs that though ???
Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which
are not shown in this example
Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
commented-out examples in this file.
- When such options are commented with “;”, the proposed setting
differs from the default Samba behaviour
- When commented with “#”, the proposed setting is the default
behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
enough to be mentioned here
NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
“testparm” to check that you have not made any basic syntactic
errors.
A well-established practice is to name the original file
“smb.conf.master” and create the “real” config file with
testparm -s smb.conf.master >smb.conf
This minimizes the size of the really used smb.conf file
which, according to the Samba Team, impacts performance
However, use this with caution if your smb.conf file contains nested
“include” statements. See Debian bug #483187 for a case
where using a master file is not a good idea.
#======================= Global Settings =======================
[global]
unix charset = UTF-8
Browsing/Identification
Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
wins support = no
WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z
This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no
What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
Networking
The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
interface names are normally preferred
interfaces = 192.168.0.8/24 eth0
Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
‘interfaces’ option above to use this.
It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this
option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
; bind interfaces only = yes
Debugging/Accounting
This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
max log size = 1000
If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
parameter to ‘yes’.
syslog only = no
We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
####### Authentication #######
“security = user” is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
in this server for every user accessing the server. See
/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
in the samba-doc package for details.
security = share
You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on
‘encrypt passwords’ in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
encrypt passwords = true
If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
password database type you are using.
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
passdb is changed.
unix password sync = yes
For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de for
sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = Enter\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n Retype\snew\s\spassword:* %n\n password\supdated\ssuccessfully .
This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
‘passwd program’. The default is ‘no’.
pam password change = yes
This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
to anonymous connections
map to guest = bad user
########## Domains ###########
Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
change the ‘domain master’ setting to no
; domain logons = yes
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of the user’s profile directory
from the client point of view)
The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the
samba server (see below)
; logon path = \%N\profiles%U
Another common choice is storing the profile in the user’s home directory
(this is Samba’s default)
logon path = \%N%U\profile
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the location of a user’s home directory (from the client
point of view)
; logon drive = H:
logon home = \%N%U
The following setting only takes effect if ‘domain logons’ is set
It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored
in the [netlogon] share
NOTE: Must be store in ‘DOS’ file format convention
; logon script = logon.cmd
This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix
password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos “” %u
This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the
SAMR RPC pipe.
The following assumes a “machines” group exists on the system
; add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c “%u machine account” -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
RPC pipe.
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g
########## Printing ##########
If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
than setting them up individually then you’ll need this
load printers = yes
lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
printcap file
; printing = bsd
; printcap name = /etc/printcap
CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
cupsys-client package.
; printing = cups
; printcap name = cups
############ Misc ############
Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
of the machine that is connecting
; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m
Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
for details
You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c ‘/usr/bin/linpopup “%f” “%m” %s; rm %s’ &
Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
must set this to ‘no’; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
domain master = auto
Some defaults for winbind (make sure you’re not using the ranges
for something else.)
; idmap uid = 10000-20000
; idmap gid = 10000-20000
; template shell = /bin/bash
The following was the default behaviour in sarge,
but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce
performance issues in large organizations.
See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of not
having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.
; winbind enum groups = yes
; winbind enum users = yes
Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
with the net usershare command.
Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
; usershare max shares = 100
Allow users who’ve been granted usershare privileges to create
public shares, not just authenticated ones
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
user’s home directory as \server\username
;[homes]
; comment = Home Directories
; browseable = no
By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
next parameter to ‘no’ if you want to be able to write to them.
; read only = yes
File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; create mask = 0700
Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; directory mask = 0700
By default, \server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter
to make sure that only “username” can connect to \server\username
This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
; valid users = %S
Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/samba/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; read only = yes
; share modes = no
Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store
users profiles (see the “logon path” option above)
(you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
The path below should be writable by all users so that their
profile directory may be created the first time they log on
;[profiles]
; comment = Users profiles
; path = /home/samba/profiles
; guest ok = no
; browseable = no
; create mask = 0600
; directory mask = 0700
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
printer drivers
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
You may need to replace ‘lpadmin’ with the name of the group your
admin users are members of.
Please note that you also need to set appropriate Unix permissions
to the drivers directory for these users to have write rights in it
; write list = root, @lpadmin
A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server’s CD-ROM
; read only = yes
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; guest ok = yes
The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
an entry like this:
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
If you don’t want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
is mounted on /cdrom
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom
NAS-20GB added by BkS
[Wallpapers]
comment = Wallpapers Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-20GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
NAS-200GB added by BkS
[Share]
comment = Public Folder
path = /mnt/NAS-200GB/share
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mode = 0777
directory mode = 0777
share mode = 0777
``` sudo nano /etc/fstab ```
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
Use ‘blkid -o value -s UUID’ to print the universally unique identifier
for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/ was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=ff0a5255-09f5-4b23-a2d2-8db9cebc726d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=652469de-ef92-47ea-8e42-25deb43687fe none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/NAS-200GB ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/NAS-20GB ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
``` mount ```
bks@bally-server:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/NAS-200GB type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdc1 on /mnt/NAS-20GB type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
``` ls -l /mnt/NAS-20GB ```
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /mnt/NAS-20GB
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2012-04-14 13:05 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 share
``` ls-l /mnt/NAS-200GB ```
bks@bally-server:~$ ls -l /mnt/NAS-200GB
total 20
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2012-04-14 13:08 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-04-16 11:21 share
``` sudo fdisk -l ```
bks@bally-server:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000097c9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4661 37431296 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4661 4866 1648641 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4661 4866 1648640 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00073313
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 20.5 GB, 20490559488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004827c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 2491 20008926 83 Linux
can you also try this:mkdir /mnt/NAS-200GB/share/testdirI just want to know if this works.
Yes I can make that directory:
bks@bally-server:~$ ls /mnt/NAS-200GB/share/ testdir
SeZo, you deserve a medal. 
It works now!
I’m still wondering WHY that worked though ?
I considered it earlier, but could see no reason for it ???
Medals???
Didn’t know they are giving those out here.
Lucky guess I suppose. Mark has done all the work, thank him.
I am guessing that when you CHMOD a file or folder, some servers require you also CHMOD
the folder holding it to the same level of permissions for it to work. ???
Well it certainly “looks” that way … just a bit baffled by it though.
I’m guessing it’s a Samba quirk, because I’ve never had to do that when mounting across the network with cifs or even smbfs (or obviously locally).
Weird :o
The forum has got an “Awards” feature, with piccies of medals … we’ve just not implemented it … to tell the truth, I’ve not looked into how t works.
These are the awards 
SeZo, you may as well accept the thanks, not only did you come up with the answer, but he doesn’t thank me any more [snivel] … one of us may as well get thanked
Just pulling your leg BkS 
LOL, “Asshole of the month”. That’s brilliant.
Yeh … I’ve wanted to use that one before.
Remember this:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=2552.msg61331#msg61331
and the topic that prompted that ?
Oh how he/she deserved that award. You were going of your head lol. I still have the PM’s XD