DSL 4 & Samba

Forum: Networking
Topic: DSL 4 & Samba
started by: danielp

Posted by danielp on Nov. 04 2007,14:00

I did a frugal install of DSL 4.0 yesterday, and installed the samba.dsl mydsl extension.

Some comments:

1)from an end user perspective (newbie here), I'd say that the new smb.conf file is less user friendly than the one included with DSL 3.4. Is there a reason for the change?

2)testparm doesn't work anymore; was it removed from DSL?

And now I also have another problems:

a)my /dev/hda3 automatically mounts somewhere, while previously with 3.4 I had to mount it manually in /opt/bootlocal.sh What's the reason for that change?

b)the samba share is readable from my other network PC, but not writeable; while it worked with DSL 3.4 previously. I'm fairly sure it's not a smb.conf problem, but a rights problem. Could it come from problem a) above? Who should be the owner of the shared folder?

Thanks for your help!

Posted by Juanito on Nov. 04 2007,14:40

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2)testparm doesn't work anymore; was it removed from DSL?

- it will be in /usr/bin if it is still there (I'm writing this from a dsl-3.4.x machine).

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b)the samba share is readable from my other network PC, but not writeable

- smb.conf should have something like this:

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[share]
path = /mnt/sdb4/dslshare
read only = no
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

- my share is dsl.staff but I'm not sure a windows machine would know this?

Posted by danielp on Nov. 04 2007,15:01

Thanks Juanito. I'm not in front of my DSL box right now, but I'm quite sure I don't have the guest ok = yes line, so I will add that.

I was trying to write from another linux PC, but in the end it will be also be used from a windows PC.

Posted by danielp on Nov. 04 2007,19:29

OK: testparm is still there; wonder why I didn't see it before; thanks!

But the write access problem still persisted. I also had owner dsl.staff for my share.

Seeing that my other share /tmp still worked in write mode, I looked at the owner of that one, and guess what, it was root.root. So I changed my other share to root.root and now I can write on it!

I have a feeling there's a problem related to the fact that the /mnt/hda3 is automatically mounted at startup by the new version of DSL, while I had to manually do it from /opt/bootlocal.sh

Maybe Robert can confirm?