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Spend a day on this, but as I am writing this I have a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M going, not caring about any data.

I want to create a new RAID5 array with spare disk, with the existing...

After copying back my smb.conf file and reinstalling I have a working server. I changed the config manually by copying the contents of the other samba server 100%. Will test without changing anything...

Thanks for the reply guys. I will try and take it one for one.

* I can ping the host names and the various PCs using IP and host names.
* The ubuntu server only use linux file systems (think that...

OK. I have been battling with this for more than a month now and it is just getting more problematic. I have installed a few ubuntu servers (3, so I am no expert) with samba without issues, but now I...

Hi All. I had Mediatomb installed for the past year on Ubuntu server 14.04, chucking along happily. I then noticed that it is not updating the database as I like, and after following a few pages on...

Hi All,

First, I have followed the steps on:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/266825/what-do-i-do-when-my-root-filesystem-is-full...

Cool. I am managing to run mke2fs -cc /dev/md0 withing it crashing. I previously run in via webmin. When this is finished I will do a memtest and cpuburn. I am also starting to think that the mememry...

OK, I patiently waited for the rebuilding of the RAID 10 system, and it was finished when I got to work this morning. PC still standing. Raid Status clean (in green writing). Tried to create the file...

I just installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.1. New HP Microserver. I selected the it to install a Samba server as I will be using this as a file server. This is the process I followed (I boot from a Flash...

Thanks all, resolved. AS I had not internet or network connectivity I retyped that files here. It was correct.

I misspelled address here, not in the file
the
auto em1 line was not commented...

First, I do not know Linux that well, but I have previously installed a few servers that I use as NAS devices. I now have a new HP Microserver that I want to use as a DHCP as well as a NAS server,...

Seems Ubuntu installs ufw by default, but it remains inactive till enabled.


> ufw status
Status: inactive

Hi,

I should not have a firewall installed. I never selected it to be installed (as far as I know). How can I check.

Lemme search the net a bit.

Sorry, misunderstood you.


> testparm.samba3 -sv | grep "netbios name"
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)...

> testparm.samba3 -sv | grep movie-NAS
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing...

> testparm -sv | grep "netbios name"
bash: testparm: command not found
> testparm -sv | grep movie-NAS
bash: testparm: command not found


> sudo nmap -sS -sU -T4 192.168.0.211

Starting Nmap...

> testparm.samba3 | grep "netbios name"
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing...

Sorry. Backup-NAS is now called MENCO-NAS1, as I plan installing a second server for backup purposes.

The movie-NAS is the correct name. It was run from the problem PC. It does not want to show.

Result of smbtree


WORKGROUP
\\VIDEO-SERV-PC
\\SOUND
\\SOUND\Printer PDF-XChange for ABBYY PDF Transformer 2.0
\\SOUND\C$ Default share...

Hmm ... yeah. Is that wrong / risky. The server is not on the net and only visible on my home network.

I restarted and waiting for it to "settle".

Thanks

Sigh. Still not working. I cannot understand. I have two identical servers, namely HP 40L Microservers. They each have 4x 2GB Seagate Baracuda drives booting from a 8 GB Kingston flashdrive. I think...

I have a small network and never had to use it. Everything used to resolved the host names. I thought that the switch that I use did that automatically.

Here is the smb.conf file. I removed the...

Sigh. Still no luck.

Thanks. I uncommented that line, yet, when I tried restarting SAMBA it told me command not found.


> sudo /etc/init.d/samba status
sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found

I did try:
...

I got myself two HP Microservers for NAS purposes. Both were the same. I installed Ubuntu server on the one without a glitch, and everything worked from scratch. It is currently doing service as the...