Delete configuration Samba

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#1

Hi,

I have tried to set up Samba on my new installation and I almost had it. I made some tweaks in the configuration, and suddenly the shares were gone on my Windows machines. I did something I can’t remember. Is it a way to delete the configuration so I can start a new with setting up Samba? I even got a message in dolphin saying it could not connect to smb localhost.

Dag R

#2

The smb.conf file is the pertinent config file for samba.

I even got a message in dolphin saying it could not connect to smb localhost.

Dag R

Check

sudo systemctl status smb

Any errors?

#3

BTW, what does testparm report?

testparm -s
#4

testparm -s

dagr@opensuse22:~> testparm -s 
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf 
Loaded services file OK. 
Weak crypto is allowed 

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE 

# Global parameters 
[global] 
        logon drive = P: 
        logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile 
        logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile 
        map to guest = Bad User 
        printcap name = cups 
        usershare allow guests = Yes 
        usershare max shares = 100 
        wins support = Yes 
        idmap config * : backend = tdb 
        cups options = raw 


[homes] 
        comment = Home Directories 
        inherit acls = Yes 
        read only = No 
        valid users = %S %D%w%S 


[profiles] 
        comment = Network Profiles Service 
        create mask = 0600 
        directory mask = 0700 
        path = %H 
        read only = No 


[users] 
        comment = All users 
        guest ok = Yes 
        inherit acls = Yes 
        path = /home 
        read only = No 
        veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/ 


[groups] 
        comment = All groups 
        inherit acls = Yes 
        path = /home/groups 
        read only = No 


[Nedlastinger] 
        guest ok = Yes 
        inherit acls = Yes 
        path = /home/dagr/Nedlastinger 
        read only = No 


[Plysh] 
        guest ok = Yes 
        inherit acls = Yes 
        path = /home/dagr/Plysh 
        read only = No
#5

systemctl status smb:

systemctl status smb 
● smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon 
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) 
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2022-09-11 21:48:23 CEST; 18h ago 
       Docs: man:smbd(8) 
             man:samba(7) 
             man:smb.conf(5) 
    Process: 5880 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba-profile (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) 
   Main PID: 5889 (smbd) 
     Status: "smbd: ready to serve connections..." 
      Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915) 
     CGroup: /system.slice/smb.service 
             ├─ 5889 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group 
             ├─ 5891 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group 
             ├─ 5892 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group 
             └─ 5893 /usr/lib64/samba/samba-bgqd --ready-signal-fd=47 --parent-watch-fd=13 --debuglevel=0 -F
#6

When you say the shares were gone, do you actually mean you can’t discover the shares automatically? Or that when you try to access them by a file manager you are denied access?

It should be as simple as navigating to them with “\<IP address or hostname>&lt;share>”

#7

The shares on my windows machine does not appear and when I tries to take them up in Dolphin (network shares) on the Opensuse server it says:

Klarte ikke kople til vert for smb://opensuse22.local/ No shared folders found.

The first part is in Norwegian and means: cannot connect to (host) local shares. I must have done something wrong here.

Dag R

#8

On the server check

smbclient -L localhost

I expect that to show the shares without any issue.

Also, regarding the Avahi hostname “opensuse22.local”…

On the openSUSE host itself, check

avahi-resolve-host-name opensuse22.local

Can you ping that successfully from the Windows machine?

ping opensuse22.local

If you use the actual IP address in the Windows file manager, does it work ok?

#9

All the tests you made me do works but the ip adress in the file manager.

Dag R

#10

Ok. Next thing to check is your openSUSE firewall.

firewall-cmd --list-all
#11 
firewall-cmd --list-all 
public (active) 
  target: default 
  icmp-block-inversion: no 
  interfaces: eth1 
  sources:  
  services: dhcpv6-client samba 
  ports:  
  protocols:  
  forward: no 
  masquerade: no 
  forward-ports:  
  source-ports:  
  icmp-blocks:  
  rich rules:
#12

I changed the global setup from the post on the howto pages on the forum, and it works now. I have som problems with the users on the windows network, but I will place those questions in another thread.

Dag R

#13

Can you share which parameters were causing problems for you? It might help others who come searching.

#14

I went to Swerdnas post for setting up Samba https://forums.opensuse.org/content.php/199-Configure-Samba-for-Local-Lan-Workgroup. Then I went to the part «Reconfigure global stanza» and replaced the lines in my stanza with the one in the article and restartet smb/nmb.

Then I wrote the adress of the share in the file manager in Windows on the form “\<hostname>&lt;share>” , and the shares appeared. When I did that before the reconfiguring I only wrote in the host name without backslashes. Maybe it would have worked without reconfiguring the stanza, if I had I read the answers in the thread more thoroughly.

Thanx for the help.

Dag R

#15

Ok, that old article describes the same as the default ‘samba-client’ package provides. You had added

wins support = Yes
idmap config * : backend = tdb

Not sure what impact that might have had (if any).

Then I wrote the adress of the share in the file manager in Windows on the form “\<hostname>&lt;share>” , and the shares appeared. When I did that before the reconfiguring I only wrote in the host name without backslashes. Maybe it would have worked without reconfiguring the stanza, if I had I read the answers in the thread more thoroughly.

Thanx for the help.

Dag R

Yes, the correct way to enter the shared network share is using the format ‘\hostname\share’. Anyway, good to read that it is working as expected now.

#16

Only one thing, when I go to Dolphin and click on Network -> shared folders (smb) I get the main folder (opensuse22), but when I click on the folder i get the message: No folders found. When I go to details at says the folder has no owner. This must be wrong? I did some mess with Samba users. I made one completely new user and made a copy of my personal user. This may have affected I can not open this network folder on the server. Can you help me out here?

Dag R

#17

That is actually the host (not the share).

…but when I click on the folder i get the message: No folders found. When I go to details at says the folder has no owner. This must be wrong?

Show the permissions of that folder, as specified in your working smb.conf.

#18

I don’t understand your answer. Could you explain where I find those permissions? Is it in the global ,or do you mean I have to set the permssions, or have I already set the permissions (but not aware of it)?

Dag R

#19

I meant checking the directories you shared eg /home/dagr/Nedlastinger (as listed in smb.conf)…

ls -ld /home/dagr/Nedlastinger
#20

Ok. I thought it was enough to mark them in the smb.conf as shared. I have opened those to folders for guest access, and now it works. The only thing I have not got to work properly is the access of the host in Dolphin (on the host). But Samba and file sharing works, and that’s the main thing.

Dag R