i have recently made the switch to Opensuse 13.1 from Ubuntu, can’t say its the smoothest transition but i guess its worth it , ran in to troubles with SAMBA sharing ,
i have managed to configure SAMBA with YAst2 , below is the testparm output :
eddy@linux-6kqn:~> testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384)
Can't find include file /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[profiles]"
Processing section "[users]"
Processing section "[groups]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[print$]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions
[global]
map to guest = Bad User
printcap name = cups
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon drive = P:
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
domain master = No
idmap config * : backend = tdb
cups options = raw
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
browseable = No
[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
store dos attributes = Yes
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
create mask = 0600
printable = Yes
print ok = Yes
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin, root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
and i also went on to YAST 2 and verified the firewall settings Opened up all the SAMBA related ports , and also configured the BROADCAST option in firewall for SAMBA Browsing ,
The issue is i can see my windows 7 computer’s shares from OpenSUSE 13.1 , but the windows 7 computer cant see the shared files on OpenSUSE 13.1 , i dont know how to figure this out , any ocnstructive help is much appreciated . cheers
ok guys , been waiting for help i got restless and give it another go to get a handle on the situation , looking at the testparm output i realised it said
/etc/samba/dhcp.conf not found , i manually created an empty file in the said directory,
plus in the Yast2>SambaServer>Identity>WINS
in this section i sleceted WINS server support and Retrieve WINS server via DHCP
Apparently that fixed the issue partially , i was able to see my Opensuse 13.1 form my windows 7 machine , now i added a linux user in to the samba user group so that i will be able to log in from windows 7 machine in to the opensuse
eddy@linux-6kqn:~> su
Password:
linux-6kqn:/home/eddy # groupadd smbgroup
linux-6kqn:/home/eddy # usermod -a -G smbgroup eddy
linux-6kqn:/home/eddy # smbpasswd -a eddy
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user eddy.
after that i m able to browse the user eddy whole home directory from windows machine , not sure if its a good safe practice or not
if anyone can guide me in sharing specific directories form my home directory , please feel free to help .
after restarting opensuse 13.1 , samba sharing stopped working , systemctl gave this output
linux-6kqn:/home/eddy # systemctl status smb.service
smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: resources) since Sun 2014-01-19 12:25:30 PKT; 10s ago
Process: 2328 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site smbd[2328]: [2014/01/19 12:25:30.340148, 0] ../...)
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site smbd[2328]: standard input is not a socket, assu...n
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site smbd[2329]: [2014/01/19 12:25:30.342814, 0] ../...)
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site smbd[2329]: ERROR: can't open /var/run/samba/smb...y
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: PID file /run/samba/smbd.pid not rea....
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Jan 19 12:25:30 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: Unit smb.service entered failed state.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
linux-6kqn:/home/eddy # systemctl status nmb.service
nmb.service - Samba NMB Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nmb.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2014-01-19 11:57:10 PKT; 29min ago
Jan 19 11:55:40 linux-6kqn systemd[1]: Starting Samba NMB Daemon...
Jan 19 11:55:41 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: PID file /run/samba/nmbd.pid not rea....
Jan 19 11:57:10 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: nmb.service operation timed out. Ter....
Jan 19 11:57:10 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba NMB Daemon.
Jan 19 11:57:10 linux-6kqn.site systemd[1]: Unit nmb.service entered failed state.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
apparently the smb and nmb services are not enabled i , tried enabling them through YAST and also from runing
was very happy to see a polished interface of Opensuse , but really loosing my nerves with the fact the LVM enncryption didnt worked with opensuse 13.1 and also now SAMBA is not working
changed the permissions in to complain instead of enforce as explained in the thread and everything worked again , but really this samba thing made me pull my hair whatever is left of them ,
