Giving acces to usb harddrive

**RusArt** · 29-May-2011, 21:51

Hi.
I have an USB drive and I made a share with samba and accessed it from windows computer.
I've been using openSUSE 11.3 with no problems.

Recently, I've installed openSUSE 11.4. Now I can't write to my USB Disk through samba.

It is formatted as ntfs.

samba log tells a lot of things.... for eg.:

Code:

[2011/05/30 11:46:54.148085,  2] smbd/trans2.c:5531(smb_set_file_dosmode)
  smb_set_file_dosmode: file_set_dosmode of 1 failed (Permission denied)
[2011/05/30 11:46:54.148163,  3] smbd/error.c:80(error_packet_set)
  error packet at smbd/trans2.c(7759) cmd=50 (SMBtrans2) NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
[2011/05/30 11:46:54.154426,  3] smbd/process.c:1485(process_smb)
  Transaction 203 of length 45 (0 toread)
[2011/05/30 11:46:54.154572,  3] smbd/process.c:1294(switch_message)
  switch message SMBclose (pid 15374) conn 0xb77b6e00
[2011/05/30 11:46:54.154638,  3] smbd/reply.c:4653(reply_close)
  close fd=-1 fnum=12766 (numopen=1)
[2011/05/30 11:46:54.154750,  2] smbd/close.c:656(close_normal_file)
  root closed file 1 (numopen=0) NT_STATUS_OK

Tried to set NTFS access from Windows PC. It doesn't work.
Tried to change options in fstab:

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-StoreJet_TS120GSJ25T-S_404812FF-0:0-part1 /media/USBHDD        ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

I can write to USB HardDrive from SUSE with no su privileges. But I stil can't write to it through samba.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

**swerdna** · 30-May-2011, 02:16

The mount defines root ownership which likely is in conflict with the samba permissions as contained in the file smb.conf.

Please post a copy of the file here so I can check Samba permissions. Run this command: cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
Please post results of next command here so I can cross check with above. Run this command (while drive is mounted): ls -l /media | grep USB

**RusArt** · 30-May-2011, 02:20

Thanks for reply!

1:

Code:

[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        netbios name = LS00006
#       passdb backend = smbpasswd
#       printing = cups
#       printcap name = cups
#       printcap cache time = 750
#       cups options = raw
#       map to guest = Bad User
#       include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
#       logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
#       logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
#       logon drive = P:
        security = share
#       usershare allow guests = Yes
        guest account = smbanon
#       guest account = root
        log level = 3
        ldap suffix = 
        wins server = 
        wins support = No

[h]
        comment = USD
        path = /media/USBHDD/
        read only = No
        browseable = Yes
        guest ok = Yes
        writable = Yes

[temp]
        comment = temp
        path = /home/rusart/temp
        guest ok = Yes
        browsable = Yes
        read only = No

[r]
        comment = test
        path = /media/36BA-C65A
        guest ok = Yes
        browsable = Yes

2:

Code:

rusart@L000006:/media>         ls -l /media | grep USB
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 May 30 12:00 USBHDD

**swerdna** · 30-May-2011, 02:46

I don't know how smbanon and security = share mix in with a root share. But I can suggest what should work. You should keep a copy of the old smb.conf and make a new one using this:

Code:

[global]
        workgroup = WORKGROUP
        netbios name = LS00006
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
local master = auto
preferred master = auto
os level = 32
#       passdb backend = smbpasswd
#       printing = cups
#       printcap name = cups
#       printcap cache time = 750
#       cups options = raw
       map to guest = Bad User
#       include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
#       logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
#       logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
#       logon drive = P:
 security = user
#       usershare allow guests = Yes
#       guest account = smbanon
#       guest account = root
        log level = 3
#        ldap suffix = 
#        wins server = 
#        wins support = No

[h]
        comment = USD
        path = /media/USBHDD/
        read only = No
#        browseable = Yes
        guest ok = Yes
#        writable = Yes
force user = rusart

[temp]
        comment = temp
        path = /home/rusart/temp
        guest ok = Yes
        browsable = Yes
        read only = No

[r]
        comment = test
        path = /media/36BA-C65A
        guest ok = Yes
        browsable = Yes

And change the mount code in fstab to be this:

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-StoreJet_TS120GSJ25T-S_404812FF-0:0-part1 /media/USBHDD        ntfs-3g    defaults,uid=rusart,gid=users,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

That would match most everything up OK I hope

**swerdna** · 30-May-2011, 02:47

I'm assuming that your username is rusart.

**RusArt** · 30-May-2011, 03:16

fstab changed
smb.conf changed

after remounting....

The same result...

Code:

# ls -l /media/ | grep US
drwxrwxrwx 1 rusart users 12288 May 30 12:00 USBHDD

Code:

# mount | grep USB
/dev/sdc1 on /media/USBHDD type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

**swerdna** · 30-May-2011, 03:54

Oh and another thing just to mind, there's a bug in Samba daemon in 11.4, that might cause a problem, check it's not active, run this command and report back:

Code:

su - -c "rcnmb status;rcsmb status"

(ps there are two minuses in there, it's not a typo)

**RusArt** · 30-May-2011, 04:06

Code:

> su - -c "rcnmb status;rcsmb status"
Password: 
Checking for Samba NMB daemon                                                                                                                            unused
Checking for Samba SMB daemon                                                                                                                            running

starting of NMB does nothing

**swerdna** · 30-May-2011, 04:27

Originally Posted by RusArt

Code:

> su - -c "rcnmb status;rcsmb status"
Password: 
Checking for Samba NMB daemon                                                                                                                            unused
Checking for Samba SMB daemon                                                                                                                            running

starting of NMB does nothing

You've been hit by the bug. Go to Yast -->Novell AppArmor --> AppArmor Control Panel --> Set Profile Modes --> Configure --> highlight usr.sbin.smbd and "Toggle" to read "complain". Do that also for usr.sbin.nmbd. Lock that in (Done --> Done etcr).

Next go to Yast --> system --> system services runlevels and find nmb and smb and make sure they're set to running=yes. If not, then toggle them to on with Enable button.

After, reboot.