SMB / Samba NAS Configurations
How to setup Samba with two workgroups? How to setup Samba to follow symbolic links?
Problem: we have shares for each users. if I want to access it from Windows, I have to enter password. if I don't this on first access, windows won't ask my anymore to enter password and just denies access. How can I force windows, to reenter password for share ???
If your samba password doesn't work then run this on core to update your samba password:
sudo smbpasswd pluto_USER
where USER is your username. For instance to change john's password run sudo smbpasswd pluto_john
Adding fileserver on the external network
The external network does not get scanned for Samba servers. You can easily add a new server by going into the web admin
- Click Show Device Tree
- Click CORE
- On the right hand side, click Create Child Device
- Click Pick Device Template
- In the popup select File Server from the drop down box, it should be ID 1837
- Now, it is important to fill out 2 fields
- The IP address
- and the MAC address
- The username and password are only needed if the file server requires them.
- There is currently a bug in the webadmin which causes this file server to not be scanned for shares.
The good thing about LinuxMCE is, that LinuxMCE routinely scans the internal network for servers, and if found, scans those servers for shares to be mounted and spidered for media. To initiate the scan for shares manually (because of a manually added server) do the following
- Open a terminal
- Execute
/usr/pluto/bin/Configure_1837.sh -d <device-id> -i '<ip-address>' -m '<mac-address>'
This will execute the scan for new shares. The shares will be presented to you on any orbiter.
