samba problem

[kritro]

Hello! I have a samba problem. It have worked fine for a longe time, but yesterday its no more. It happened after I installed a new hardrive, but I dont now if its becuase of that.

it seems it cant get to files. When I try to start it in terminal it says:
install; can not change owner and group for /var/run/samba. Operation not allowed. When I try as root it gives no message but it says stopping samba.... [ok] starting samba.......[fail].

When i go to the KinfoCenter under samba it says: error could not open config file smb.conf.
When I go under log, a pop up says, Error, could not open /var/log/samba.log.

I tried to change the permisions on the files, but its the same problem.
I not very familier with linux som I'm a little stuck here.

Anyone now what this could be?

kritro

[penguin.ch]

Re: samba problem

When i go to the KinfoCenter under samba it says: error could not open config file smb.conf.
When I go under log, a pop up says, Error, could not open /var/log/samba.log.

O.k., for starters, let's check if these files were still available:

[sudo] ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf
[sudo] ls -l /var/log/samba.log

[kritro]

Re: samba problem

yes they are available can be opened both from root and from my user.
I was thinking maby its best to just install samba all over again and use my the same smb.conf.

[penguin.ch]

Re: samba problem

maby its best to just install samba all over again and use my the same smb.conf

Prior to that I would check if your configuration were still valid: sudo testparm ... otherwise, a reinstallation may be a waste of time.

Addenum: you may also replace your configuration by a (very) simplistic one, e.g. resembling this "template", to hopefully narrow down which part of Samba has gone down the drain.

Birdy


Postscript: "template" moved to this page

[kritro]

Re: samba problem

reinstall whas not possible, som error message came up.

sudo testparm gave this

kritro@kritro-desktop:~$ sudo testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
params.c:Section() - Badly formed line in configuration file: ]
params.cm_process() - Failed. Error returned from params.carse().
Error loading services.
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then i made a simple smb.conf file as you sad and tried to restart. It gave this

kritro@kritro-desktop:~$ /etc/init.d/samba restart
* Stopping Samba daemons... [ ok ]
* Starting Samba daemons... install: kan ikke endre eier og/eller gruppe for «/var/run/samba»: Operasjonen er ikke tillatt
/etc/init.d/samba: line 25: 5774 Avbrutt (SIGABRT) start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/smbd -- -D
[fail]

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sudo testparm gave this

kritro@kritro-desktop:~$ sudo testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[HITATCHI]"
Loaded services file OK.
WARNING: passdb expand explicit = yes is deprecated
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/smb.log

[HITATCHI]
path = /home/kritro/Hitatchi
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
case sensitive = No
msdfs proxy = no


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I not very familier with linux som I'm a little stuck here. Maby its better to start a fresh install of the OS

[penguin.ch]

Re: samba problem

kritro@kritro-desktop:~$ sudo testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
params.c:Section() - Badly formed line in configuration file: ]

This looks to me as if merely your samba config file were damaged - no reason for reinstalling anything, promting some bricolage at most, I dare say ... to be more specific: you should be able to access the file in question by means of a live system (as described in these notes), and, if unsure about how to fix it, post it here to let us help you on.

Birdy

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Postscript: reference updated