A lot of changes were made to smb.conf in the last update, I would recommend using it as a template for smb-local.conf and then re-add your customisations like hiding the auto mount shares.
Got it. I reworked it and seems to work well. I’ll keep it this way till I can get the other to connect correctly and my auto syncing program reworked with the new paths.
I too am having issues sharing my video from one pi to another.
I’m a complete noob to most of this but am learning by trial and error. Is there a tutorial on the above discussion or even a step by step “how to” that I can follow along?
I have three pi’s running the newest version of osmc. Main one has external HDs attached via a powered usb. Main one works great to watch but my ultimate goal is to share the data to the other two. I installed SMB from the App Store on the main pi and attempted to access from the others.
I’m going to attempt a few things first to see if I can get it working. But is some brave soul wants to help me figure out exactly how to accomplish what I’m attempting. I’d be forever in your debt.
@Kodak to be honest going thru all the potential steps with you would be a bit to much but here some steps to look at.
If you installed the samba server via app store on your main Pi you are nearly done. So if you have a problem finding it from your other PI’s you would need to troubleshoot that first. Login on the Pi and check if the samba server is running with systemctl status samba . As a next step check if you can see the shares locally with smbclient -L localhost to execute that command you would first need to install smbclient with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install smbclient
If you really wanna do a complex setup where you also want to share the library between the Pi’s you would need to watch this http://kodi.wiki/view/Mysql
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osmc@osmc:~$ systemctl status samba
samba.service - Samba Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/samba.service; disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
osmc@osmc:~$ login as: osmc
login: Cannot possibly work without effective root
osmc@osmc:~$ osmc@192.168.2.75’s password:
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osmc@osmc:~$ systemctl status samba
This link… gave very specific instructions… everything was in order… no guessing… and now on all three pi’s I can share and watch data over the network.
I thought this would be possible without my win 7 machine and from everthing I read it is . but, I can’t seem to get it working as you see in my previous posts.
If you know of a step by step guide that can walk a noob through the process that truly works please let me know the link. I don’t mind the trial and error process but it truly gets frustrating for us out here that don’t know the language.