Backup uploads to Samba share using Samba v1 fails

[Tom_Doyle]

Hi,

Whats the output of smbclient -U USERNAME -Lm ip.of.router smbclient -U USERNAME -L ip.of.router

@Kyblik

t first all seem to work great, but then I ran into couple of movies which started playing as usually but the playback was terminated within 1-3 seconds… Not all of them, only some files

Have you considered mounting your shares with:

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…

You should get better throughput and can revert to using smbv3, which is more secure; which should resolve playback issues. Will also resolve the backup issue you are having, you will need to change the backup path to the new share (same with sources for your videos).

@k2u3 is not banned, just not recommended.

Thanks Tom.