Connecting to Rockstor via SMB from Windows 10/2016 Workstation

[david_harrison]

Hi all,

I have am able to connect successfully to a non guest Rockstor shares using either the mount commands ( see my other post ) or using the GNOME file manager “connect to server” feature in the GUI no problems from a Centos 7 workstation.

I used to be able to connect from a Windows 10 worksation to Rockctor via SMB no problems.

Recently I have upgraded to the latest Rockstor and also installed the Plex Rock-On. Now Rockstor version: 3.9.2-48

Now however, I am unable to connect to the same samba share on Rockstor from a Windows 10 workstation. Windows 10 prompts me for username and password which is not accepted. The Windows 10 worksatation is in the same samba workgroup as the Rockstor server (“Lab”), and the WIndows 10 firewall is disabled. I even have on the 56bit NTLM option for file sharing as well as the 128bit defaults.

From this Windows 10 workstation I can connect to shares that are published from another server on the network that happens to be a Windows 2016 server.

I am also unable to connect to Rockstor shares from this Windows 2016 Server. This server used to be able to connect to the Rockstor shares but now it cannot.

I have just realised the Rockstor shares are not visible under network either in Centos 7 or Windows 10 - despite wll the sahres being “browseable”

I have tried just about everything - anyone know what to look for?

Error from Windows box

Success from Centos7 box

David

[phillxnet (Philip Guyton)]

@david_harrison Hello again.
Linking to your ‘other post’ re:

@david_harrison

I have am able to connect successfully to a non GUEST Rockstor shares using either the mount commands ( see my other post )

for convinience:

Connecting to Rockstor via SMB from Linux

I have a rather large Rockstor system with 10+ shares and around 10Tb of content. I have a backupo solution in my home lab that supports installation on Centos, but dowsn’t support the filesystem, so… I have another Centos 7 VM that I can install the backup client onto and mount the remote SMB shares from Rockstor. eg. sudo mount -t cifs //rockstor.domain.com.au/movies_general -o username=plex_general,password=password,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g),forceuid,forcegid /movies_general I’m using for…

Can anyone chip in on this one re share access from Windows 10 while OK from linux?

I think the browseable issue is down to some upstream changes and we do have work to do there. Linking to @Code_Monkey’s post re his fork of a Netgear open source project to provide this now required WS-Discovery service on Rockstor. Thanks @Code_Monkey. This fork/approach has been confirmed by @Hooverdan:

Windows network browsing without enabling SMB 1

Hello all With the past update to Windows SMBv1 was disabled, which means the old style network browser no longer works. For a system to show up in the network browser now, it must support WS-Discovery. I’ve forked a version of Netgear’s wsdd2 service, and got it working on my Rockstor box. You can find it here: https://github.com/cryolithic/wsdd2 Just clone, make, make install and start the service.

But we are still left with the basic share access so do please chip in if your see what @david_harrison’s issue is here or are experiencing the same / have a work around etc.

Hope that helps and thanks for helping to support Rockstor’s development via a stable channel subscription.

[david_harrison]

more info.

Tried turning on guest access to the share, still get prompted for user/password which doesn’t work.

Also turned on SAMBA v1.0 support in Windows 10, still no joy.

latest logs after a SAMBA Service restart. Rockstor is 192.168.239.31, Windows box is .35

SAMBA

[2019/06/18 08:58:55.456837, 3] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:3868(lp_load_ex)
lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.456869, 3] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:547(init_globals)
Initialising global parameters
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.456911, 3] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2782(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[global]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.456951, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[TV_War]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457003, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Movies_General]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457051, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[TV_General]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457097, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Software]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457142, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Photos_Simone]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457191, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Photos_David]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457238, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Old_Backups]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457284, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Music_David]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457329, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Music_Simone]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457374, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[vCenter]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457419, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Photos_Family]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457465, 2] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:2799(lp_do_section)
Processing section “[Movies_War]”
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457527, 3] …/source3/param/loadparm.c:1617(lp_add_ipc)
adding IPC service
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457693, 2] …/source3/lib/interface.c:345(add_interface)
added interface docker0 ip=172.17.0.1 bcast=172.17.255.255 netmask=255.255.0.0
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457710, 2] …/source3/lib/interface.c:345(add_interface)
added interface enp3s0f1 ip=192.168.10.31 bcast=192.168.10.255 netmask=255.255.255.0
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457719, 2] …/source3/lib/interface.c:345(add_interface)
added interface enp3s0f0 ip=192.168.239.31 bcast=192.168.239.255 netmask=255.255.255.0
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.457734, 3] …/source3/smbd/server.c:1808(main)
loaded services
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.458804, 1] …/source3/profile/profile.c:51(set_profile_level)
INFO: Profiling turned OFF from pid 30017
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.458821, 3] …/source3/smbd/server.c:1828(main)
Standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.458829, 3] …/source3/smbd/server.c:1840(main)
Becoming a daemon.
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.459424, 2] …/source3/passdb/pdb_interface.c:161(make_pdb_method_name)
No builtin backend found, trying to load plugin
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.460538, 3] …/lib/util/modules.c:167(load_module_absolute_path)
load_module_absolute_path: Module ‘/usr/lib64/samba/pdb/tdbsam.so’ loaded
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.462599, 3] …/source3/lib/util_procid.c:54(pid_to_procid)
pid_to_procid: messaging_dgm_get_unique failed: No such file or directory
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.464946, 3] …/source3/auth/token_util.c:681(finalize_local_nt_token)
Failed to fetch domain sid for WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.465536, 3] …/source3/rpc_server/svcctl/srv_svcctl_reg.c:565(svcctl_init_winreg)
Initialise the svcctl registry keys if needed.
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.466605, 3] …/source3/rpc_server/eventlog/srv_eventlog_reg.c:59(eventlog_init_winreg)
Initialise the eventlog registry keys if needed.
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.466797, 0] …/lib/util/become_daemon.c:138(daemon_ready)
daemon_ready: STATUS=daemon ‘smbd’ finished starting up and ready to serve connections
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.467610, 3] …/source3/printing/queue_process.c:327(start_background_queue)
start_background_queue: Starting background LPQ thread
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.468747, 3] …/source3/printing/pcap.c:140(pcap_cache_reload)
reloading printcap cache
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.468797, 3] …/source3/printing/pcap.c:189(pcap_cache_reload)
reload status: ok
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469878, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 14112 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469909, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 14113 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469924, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 14120 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469939, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 22608 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469954, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 22611 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469968, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 22612 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469983, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 22617 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.469998, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 23681 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.470012, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 23683 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.470027, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 23686 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.470042, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 23687 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.470085, 1] …/source3/lib/messages.c:879(send_all_fn)
send_all_fn: messaging_send_buf to 30017 failed: NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.471605, 2] …/source3/smbd/server.c:1381(smbd_parent_loop)
waiting for connections
[2019/06/18 08:58:55.521697, 3] …/lib/util/access.c:365(allow_access)
Allowed connection from 192.168.239.32 (192.168.239.32)
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.361894, 3] …/lib/util/access.c:365(allow_access)
Allowed connection from 192.168.239.35 (192.168.239.35)
[2019/06/18 09:00:11.319195, 3] …/lib/util/access.c:365(allow_access)
Allowed connection from 192.168.239.35 (192.168.239.35)

NMBD

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Samba name server ROCKSTOR is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.10.31

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[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498484, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_namelistdb.c:263(add_name_to_subnet)
add_name_to_subnet: Added netbios name WORKGROUP<1d> with first IP 192.168.239.31 ttl=0 nb_flags= 0 to subnet 192.168.239.31
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498492, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:354(become_local_master_stage2)
become_local_master_stage2: registered as master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.239.31
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498499, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:70(broadcast_announce_request)
broadcast_announce_request: sending announce request for workgroup WORKGROUP to subnet 192.168.239.31
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498512, 0] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:397(become_local_master_stage2)

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Samba name server ROCKSTOR is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.239.31

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[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498560, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:170(send_local_master_announcement)
send_local_master_announcement: type 849a03 for name ROCKSTOR on subnet 172.17.0.1 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498575, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:189(send_workgroup_announcement)
send_workgroup_announcement: on subnet 172.17.0.1 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498589, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:170(send_local_master_announcement)
send_local_master_announcement: type 849a03 for name ROCKSTOR on subnet 192.168.10.31 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498602, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:189(send_workgroup_announcement)
send_workgroup_announcement: on subnet 192.168.10.31 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498615, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:170(send_local_master_announcement)
send_local_master_announcement: type 849a03 for name ROCKSTOR on subnet 192.168.239.31 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:18.498629, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_sendannounce.c:189(send_workgroup_announcement)
send_workgroup_announcement: on subnet 192.168.239.31 for workgroup WORKGROUP
[2019/06/18 08:59:38.518457, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:411(write_browse_list)
write_browse_list: Wrote browse list into file /var/lib/samba/browse.dat
[2019/06/18 08:59:38.998698, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:118(process_host_announce)
process_host_announce: from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d> for server TORRENTS.
[2019/06/18 08:59:38.998737, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:134(create_server_on_workgroup)
create_server_on_workgroup: Created server entry TORRENTS of type 40011003 () on workgroup WORKGROUP.
[2019/06/18 08:59:38.998876, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:411(write_browse_list)
write_browse_list: Wrote browse list into file /var/lib/samba/browse.dat
[2019/06/18 08:59:38.998912, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:118(process_host_announce)
process_host_announce: from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d> for server TORRENTS.
[2019/06/18 08:59:59.015589, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:411(write_browse_list)
write_browse_list: Wrote browse list into file /var/lib/samba/browse.dat
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771521, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771574, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771649, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771665, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771826, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:00.771882, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:01.515930, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:01.516027, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:02.281474, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:02.281594, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.360036, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name ROCKSTOR<20>
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.360102, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:574(process_name_query_request)
OK
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.360172, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name ROCKSTOR<20>
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.360191, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:574(process_name_query_request)
OK
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693599, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693654, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693730, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693761, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693787, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:03.693797, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:04.437762, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:04.437828, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.203274, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.203384, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954384, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954426, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954494, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:660(process_get_backup_list_request)
process_get_backup_list_request: request from TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35 to WORKGROUP<1d>.
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954507, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:558(send_backup_list_response)
send_backup_list_response: sending backup list for workgroup WORKGROUP to TORRENTS<00> IP 192.168.239.35
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954695, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:05.954737, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:06.719023, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:06.719132, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:07.472592, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>
[2019/06/18 09:00:07.472711, 3] …/source3/nmbd/nmbd_incomingrequests.c:459(process_name_query_request)
process_name_query_request: Name query from 192.168.239.35 on subnet 192.168.239.31 for name WORKGROUP<1b>

[david_harrison]

another interesting fact…

If I connect to Rockstor via sftp://rockstor.mwaa.com.au/movies_war I can authenticate using the plex_general user, and it shows a directlry listing as being successful in Filezilla - but no files listed.

[david_harrison]

@phillxnet

First - I ran up another Rocktor server in a VM and it all behaves perfectly.

So I think I have found the issue with my original Rockstor server… Well an issue that might explain why the issue is happening, and I think it’s because all my permissions are screwed up…

I thought I would take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf and ensure that operations via the GUI are writing to it properly.

here are excerpts from /etc/smaba/cmb.conf - showing the config of two shares.

[Photos_Simone]
root preexec = “/opt/rockstor/bin/mnt-share Photos_Simone”
root preexec close = yes
comment = Samba-Export
path = /mnt2/Photos_Simone
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
admin users = plex_general

and

[Simone]
root preexec = “/opt/rockstor/bin/mnt-share Simone”
root preexec close = yes
comment = Samba-Export
path = /mnt2/Simone
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
admin users = plex_general

Now, I looked at the mounts.

[root@rockstor /]# ls /mnt2/Photos_Simone/
012002 012006 012010 dsm.opt Videos
012003 012007 101NIKON oldpics_scand
012004 012008 bronyscake photos
012005 012009 Copy of Simones Photos Pictures of Cannery Road

[root@rockstor /]# ls /mnt2/Simone/
012002 012006 012010 dsm.opt Videos
012003 012007 101NIKON oldpics_scand
012004 012008 bronyscake photos
012005 012009 Copy of Simones Photos Pictures of Cannery Road
[root@rockstor /]#

Interestingly they show the same contents. This should not be possible because the share “Simone” I created as test is actually empty. ie It was created with the GUI and no files placed in it!

So given that SMB is showing me the contents of the wrong directory, I’m not surprised I’m having permission issues with existing shares.

I’m not able to connect to any shares on this server with Windows machines…

When I connect to the above shares with a Linux machine I do indeed see the same content for both shares.

So advice on what to do - I imagine it is start again which is a pain given the investment I’ve put into it so far, not to mention the amount of data I have to move off it and stage somewhere…

Any help appreciated, otherwise I might have to give FreeNAS a go after buying two subscriptions for Rockstor!