Problem with Samba
 

Dear all,
I installed Samba in CentOS 7 and there is error (with Samba) when shutting down the machine. Where to find out the error?

Where/how do you see the error if you do not know where to find it? How do you know it is error with samba?

If you use systemctl to stop samba service, do you get any error?

Please see error attached to this. Thanks.

The problem is actually happening when samba starts but you only see it at shutdown.

The errors indicate that some directives in your smb.conf file are not correct or the smb.conf file itself is corrupted some how. Did you edit the file and if so how?

Please post your /etc/samba/smb.conf file but please remove all the comments i.e files that start with a ; or # characters.

Thanks. Here is the file (there is actual IP or domain instead of ?)
[global]
workgroup = SAMBA
security = user

passdb backend = tdbsam

printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
workgroup = ???.??
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
unix charset = UTF-8
dos charset = CP932
hosts allow = ?.?.?.?
security = smb01
passdb backend = ????
map to guest = Bad User
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @printadmin root
force group = @printadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[Share]
path = /home/share# shared directory
writable = yes# writable
guest ok = yes# guest allowed
guest only = yes# guest only
create mode = 0777# fully accessed file
directory mode = 0777# fully accessed directory

There are directives specific to the [global] section and ones specific to the [share] section and you can use the testparm utility to verify the syntax of your smb.conf file.

These directives belong in the [global] section and the reason for the error messages above. In addition security = smb01 is not correct. I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish but the directive should be in the [global] section. If you want to enable SMB version 1 which is not recommended, the correct syntax should be:

min procotol = SMB1

For more information see the samba guide.
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/cur...mb.conf.5.html

Here is current file

[global]
workgroup = SAMBA
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
min procotol = SMB1
# security = smb01
workgroup = ?.?
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
unix charset = UTF-8
dos charset = CP932
hosts allow = ?.?.?.?
passdb backend = ??
map to guest = Bad User
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @printadmin root
force group = @printadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[Share]# any name you like
path = /home/share# shared directory
writable = yes# writable
guest ok = yes# guest allowed
guest only = yes# guest only
create mode = 0777# fully accessed file
directory mode = 0777# fully accessed directory

but I still get attached error.

you did not fix the problem mentioned by michaelk (and stated in the error message you posted)

Here is file

[global]
workgroup = SAMBA
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
min procotol = SMB1
# security = smb01
workgroup = ?.?
inherit acls = Yes
unix charset = UTF-8
dos charset = CP932
hosts allow = ?.?.?.*
passdb backend = ??
map to guest = Bad User
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @printadmin root
force group = @printadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[Share]# any name you like
path = /home/share# shared directory
writable = yes# writable
guest ok = yes# guest allowed
guest only = yes# guest only
create mode = 0777# fully accessed file
directory mode = 0777# fully accessed directory

and I still have got attached error below.

you might want to check testparm: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/cur...estparm.1.html

Once you modify the smb.conf file to manually restart samba run the command as root
systemctl start nmb
systemctl start smb


I realize your trying to hide information but there are only three available backends. tdbsam, smbpasswd or ldapsam. The default is tdbsam and is already at the top of your smb.conf file. You also already have workgroup directive and just replace SAMBA with your actual workgroup name. See below.

Many thanks Michael.

Below is current smb.conf. I did change file and start it.


But I still get attached error.

Can not see the actual error message

systemctl -l restart smb

Or look at the log

journalctl -u smb

Thanks. I did restart smb and please see details attached below.

My fault, I misspelled protocol.

Try:
min protocol = SMB1

Thanks a lot. I did change and restarted smb. Can you see error below please?

I am not sure what the status code means.

Look at /var/log/samba log files and the output of journalctl -xe

Thanks.

Here are the errors

Dear all,
Any other help?

Dear PingAn, see post #17. Your daemon could not be started and the reason was most probably written into the log.

Can you advise regarding the file below (from /var/log/samba/old)?

Dear all,
Any other help?

You never fixed my spelling error

min procotol = SMB1

should be

min protocol = SMB1

Remove the comments on each line (#...)

Where did you see the wrong spelling (in which file)?

Here is my smb.conf

Ok that error was fixed. Now remove the comments as indicated in my previous post.

I've removed all comments within smb.conf file but I've still got the following

Check the logs.

Sorry, which log file do you mean?

/var/log/samba

Sorry to that log file is empty.

Check the files in the old directory.

Here is log.smbd-20190812

Here is part of log.nmbd-20190812

Nothing in the logs since 2019/08/03 and from the provided information it looked like it started ok.

Nothing to really indicate the cause of the problem. Could be permissions. What have you changed in addition to the smb.conf file?

I did no change other than the adjustment against smb.conf.

Samba issue
 

I was facing error in Samba while installing in my Centos OS. Can you please help me out.

John,
Can you raise one other ticket and not to annoy this issue?

Any other help to the original problem?

Try starting smbd in interactive from a terminal window instead of using systemd. That might show errors that are not seen by systemd or written to the log files. As root:

smbd -i