2011-04-30, 21:20
I wonder if anyone can help me, my SMB sharing is baffling me. It used to work fine (XBMC 10.1 on Ubuntu 9.11), but I've updated to 10.04 (and running XBMCLive 10.1) and now it doesn't work. I've read so many dif guides that all vary slightly with 'force user', inherit permissions, and all sorts or dif tags.
My user is called revo, and I want to share 2 directories: the home/revo folder (it has my music in it) and the /media directory (external drive with all my movies).
My /etc/samba/smb.conf file is here: http://pastebin.com/eaP7qFT5
My /usr/share/samba/smb.conf file is here: http://pastebin.com/KgVDJu0s
My result from testpram -s is here: http://pastebin.com/WnQqmD9m
The SMB share doesnt appear in my Finder window (I'm using a mac) like it used to, and like my BT HomeHub still does. Sometimes when I try to connect to the server using the Finder at smb://192.168.1.71 it presents me with the 2 shares (revo and media), but mostly it says "Connection failed, contact administrator" etc. I cannot work out what is going on. Some guides say to use the sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart command to restart it, but that brings up command not found, so to restart i use
sudo service nmbd restart
sudo service smbd restart
although i usually sudo reboot as i don't seem to trust it! Anybody know why it's not sharing? I'm trying to share my media so other XBMC machines on the same networks can enjoy the media.
My user is called revo, and I want to share 2 directories: the home/revo folder (it has my music in it) and the /media directory (external drive with all my movies).
My /etc/samba/smb.conf file is here: http://pastebin.com/eaP7qFT5
My /usr/share/samba/smb.conf file is here: http://pastebin.com/KgVDJu0s
My result from testpram -s is here: http://pastebin.com/WnQqmD9m
The SMB share doesnt appear in my Finder window (I'm using a mac) like it used to, and like my BT HomeHub still does. Sometimes when I try to connect to the server using the Finder at smb://192.168.1.71 it presents me with the 2 shares (revo and media), but mostly it says "Connection failed, contact administrator" etc. I cannot work out what is going on. Some guides say to use the sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart command to restart it, but that brings up command not found, so to restart i use
sudo service nmbd restart
sudo service smbd restart
although i usually sudo reboot as i don't seem to trust it! Anybody know why it's not sharing? I'm trying to share my media so other XBMC machines on the same networks can enjoy the media.
