Samba Share

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I have samba shares enabled and the app installed. I have an external harddrive directly attached to my pi running OSMC. I am trying to access this harddrive from another pi running SPMC but it cannot access those drives via Samba. Any idea what is causing it?

2

Judging from your previous posts it seems that you know how to submit appropriate debugging logs. If so, please do.

5

How are you trying to “access” them? Are you trying to “browse” for them?

6

Yes . When I go to samba share, i can see the pi and all the folders including the attached external harddrives, but i get a “broken pipe” error.

7

I suspect what is in the samba configuration file is incorrect. I assume I need to edit it from putty like application? Just wasn’t sure what file needed edited and what needed to be in the conf file to allow the mounted drive for sharing with samba.

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The config doesn’t need to be changed, all automounted drives are autoshared.
As @ooZee wrote, provide some logs than we can try to help.

9

Sorry for the delay.

Here is the log from OSMC where the drive is external is directly connected to:
OSMC Log 20171205

Here is the log from SPMC where it is trying to access the drive and gets the “broken pipe” error:
SPMC Log 20171205

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Your samba server is crashing.

Dec 05 18:47:18 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:18.999195,  0] ../lib/util/fault.c:78(fault_report)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: ===============================================================
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:19.000186,  0] ../lib/util/fault.c:79(fault_report)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 811 (4.2.14-Debian)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: Please read the Trouble-Shooting section of the Samba HOWTO
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:19.001194,  0] ../lib/util/fault.c:81(fault_report)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: ===============================================================
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:19.001500,  0] ../source3/lib/util.c:788(smb_panic_s3)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: PANIC (pid 811): internal error
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:19.003251,  0] ../source3/lib/util.c:899(log_stack_trace)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: BACKTRACE: 0 stack frames:
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: [2017/12/05 18:47:19.003935,  0] ../source3/lib/dumpcore.c:318(dump_core)
Dec 05 18:47:19 MorePiPlease smbd[811]: dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd

It seems you have never updated OSMC since march therefore you still might have a smb.conf that has a bug. I suggest you upgrade to latest OSMC and your problem should be gone.

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Thanks, fzinken. I had updated when 17 first came out and it was a lot slower so I never tried any of the other updates. I am planning to get another microsd to try the new version and see if its faster. Thanks again!