Cannot install Samba

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SMB browsing is disabled by default, you’ll need to map a network drive (on the Windows pc) that points at the Vero

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When I try to map a network drive using the IP of my Vero I get an error message in Windows saying the network name cannot be found. I don’t remember ever doing this before, I think that earlier I found my Vero in windows explorer as soon as I had installed Samba on the Vero.

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When mapping the drive use something like \\192.168.1.100\OSMC

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Not working. So I guess this means my Samba isn’t working on my Vero?

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Sorry, there should have been two slashes at the start of that path.

Is the service started? This should all ‘just work’ out of the box

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Now it tries to connect, but still can’t.

That’s what I would like to know as well.

That’s what I thought too.

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sudo systemctl status samba

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osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl status samba
Unit samba.service could not be found.
osmc@osmc:~$

So I guess it’s not enough to just install the samba-common package…

And btw, thanks for all your patience and help!

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sudo apt install samba

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Interesting! Now 14 new packages were installed. Rebooted and ran sudo systemctl status samba

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl status samba

  • samba.service
    Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
    Active: inactive (dead)

Then

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl unmask samba
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl start samba
Failed to start samba.service: Unit samba.service is masked.
osmc@osmc:~$

Now I’m stuck again :slight_smile:

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I tried to install the FTP in Kodi Appstore, but got same result as when trying to install Samba: “Not all packages were installed” or something similar to that. Can I install SFTP on the command line? What is the package called?

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SFTP is already installed, it is part of SSH

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Try sudo systemctl start smbd and sudo systemctl status smbd

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Yes!

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl start smbd
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl status smbd

  • smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-12-01 12:11:30 CET; 2h 13min ago
    Docs: man:smbd(8)
    man:samba(7)
    man:smb.conf(5)
    Main PID: 555 (smbd)
    Status: “smbd: ready to serve connections…”
    CGroup: /system.slice/smbd.service
    |-555 /usr/sbin/smbd
    |-556 /usr/sbin/smbd
    |-557 /usr/sbin/smbd
    `-559 /usr/sbin/smbd

Dec 01 12:11:28 osmc systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon…
Dec 01 12:11:30 osmc systemd[1]: smbd.service: Supervising process 555 which is not our child. We’ll most likely not notice when it exits.
Dec 01 12:11:30 osmc systemd[1]: Started Samba SMB Daemon.

I then could find OSMC in windows explorer, but it was empty, not sharing anything. So I edited /etc/samba/smb.conf using vi and added the following section to it:

[Media]
path = /media
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
read only = no

Restarted the smbd service and then my media drives are showing up in windows explorer. All works! I guess what was needed first was to install the smbd package.

Thank you again!

Now I’m trying to make accounts work, so I can switch off the guests. Didn’t work to log in with osmc/osmc account which I expected would. Will also try set it up to only accept connections from my LAN.

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Need to configure users with smbpasswd

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“Failed to find entry for user root.”

osmc@osmc:/etc/samba$ sudo smbpasswd osmc
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to find entry for user osmc.

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Read the manual
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbpasswd.8.html

smbpasswd -a osmc

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Thanks, works like a charm now :slight_smile: