Samba shares not seen in windows

Troubleshooting
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Hello everyone…

I’m new to Rockstor and NAS but have a lot of computer experience from mainframes to windows. Self taught in Linux (not very much).

Problem…
I have sharing setup correctly I believe but in windows when I try to setup the share it does not come up under network however if I put in \server address\sharename it connects and all is well. Why am I not seeing the share in Network?

Have read all the posts I could find and here is some info.

net rpc share list -U Steve
Password for [KAUFMAN-HOME\Steve]:
testing
IPC$
Vault:~ # testparm /etc/samba/smb.conf
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Loaded services file OK.
Weak crypto is allowed

Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE

Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

Global parameters

[global]
load printers = No
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
map to guest = Bad User
printcap name = /dev/null
workgroup = KAUFMAN-HOME
idmap config * : backend = tdb
cups options = raw

[testing]
admin users = Admin root
comment = Samba-Export
path = /mnt2/testing
read only = No
root preexec = “/opt/rockstor/.venv/bin/mnt-share testing”
root preexec close = Yes
Password for [KAUFMAN-HOME\Steve]:
testing
IPC$

testing is the share and Steve the user. Windows is V10 and Workgroup is the same on the windows machine.

Share info

Created on: June 10th 2024, 5:10:04 pm
Pool (Active mount options / Status): Test (rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/)
Pool Quotas: Enabled
Active mount options / Status: rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/testing

Space free - 1,023.98 MBSpace used - 16.00 KBSize 1.00 GB

Access control

Owner root
Group root
Permissions
(755)
Owner Group Other
Read
Write
Execute

TIA Steve

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This might be related to the wsdd service needed to expose the shares in window’s network neighborhood. There is a Rockon for that. Try to install that one and see whether your smb shares show up in windows.

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Thanks but that did not help. It has the same thing on my desktoop (win10) and my laptop (Win11).

I do not see the device at all but can connect if I put in addr/sharename.

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Could you share the settings you’ve used for the Rockon? I currently don’t have access to my system, but will try to check later.

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I’m not sure what settings your referring to, I just loaded the Rockon that someone suggested. It did not have any settings.

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I assume, you populated the two variables in the wsdd Rockon config screen with something like this (don’t know what your host name, so I just made one up for illustration purposes).

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Sorry I forgot about those. Yes I did. Still playing with this. No success. I’m also having a win 10 problem exactly the same. Cannot see either host in Network.

Host=vault and WG as above.

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Tomorrow I can share my settings probably.

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Here are my settings:

[global]
cups options = raw
load printers = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
log level = 3
map to guest = Bad User
printcap name = /dev/null

####BEGIN: Rockstor SAMBA GLOBAL CUSTOM####
domain master = yes
fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:model = MacSamba
fruit:nfs_aces = no
fruit:posix_rename = yes
fruit:veto_appledouble = no
fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes
local master = yes
min protocol = SMB2
netbios name = ROCKSTORHOST_NAME
os level = 255
preferred master = yes
vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr
workgroup = HOME_WORKGROUP
####END: Rockstor SAMBA GLOBAL CUSTOM####

[testing]
root preexec = “/opt/rockstor/.venv/bin/mnt-share testing”
root preexec close = yes
comment = Testing Files
path = /mnt2/testing
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
admin users = admin testing

As you can see, within Rockstor global I maintained a few parameter through the services menu. For a given share I don’t have any additional parameters beyond what Rockstor populates automatically. The global vfs and fruit related settings are for apple-specific things (ability to use iphone/ipad to access and manage file shares on the server, I also put a How-To on the forum for that).
Some of the global entries are “legacy” like the netbios name, but I never removed them after windows 10/11 defaulted to using wsdd and SMBv1 was disabled.

Anyway, with these settings I can see the shares on both Windows 11 and 10 machines. I don’t have the win 10 box running so I can’t tell you right now what the settings are but on win11 I have the SMB Direct selected under the windows features:

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I had the SMB 1.0 installed and the SMB direct so I removed the SMB1 and no difference. Everything works still but I still can’t see my nas nor can I see my win 10 box that I mad the change on.

I’m on to other things as I can get to the shares directly. I give up on this one.

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