Custom SMB Shares not mounted in 8.1.2 (Solved)

M3Rocket · September 26, 2017 at 9:10 PM

Really strange problem when I upgraded to 8.1.2 from 8.1.1--two specific samba shares I added in samba.conf is inaccessible/not listed while all the others are. All the other samba shares like Configfiles, Pictures, Music, Screenshots, etc. all work and is browse-able. I had to go back to 8.1.1 to gain access to these two paths via SMB.

These two additional paths in samba.conf:

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[Kodi]
  path = /storage/.kodi
  available = yes
  browsable = yes
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  root preexec = mkdir -p /storage/.kodi

[Hyperion]
  path = /storage/hyperion
  available = yes
  browsable = yes
  public = yes
  writable = yes
  root preexec = mkdir -p /storage/hyperion

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Also, smbstatus is not included with LE, but is there an equivalent console command so I can see which SMB shares are mounted?

M3Rocket · September 27, 2017 at 12:54 AM

Fixed it. Looks like the samba.conf I created from samba.conf.sample in 8.1.1 had this header:

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# samba.conf

I noticed in 8.1.2, the header reads:

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# samba.conf v4 (do not remove)

So I just changed that one line in samba.conf for 8.1.2, and now the custom maps work.

**chewitt** · September 28, 2017 at 6:02 AM Official Post

Yup, we added some detection in 8.1.2 that looks for the string with v4 (anything older is presumed not based on the v4 template) and if not found we skip the custom config and start Samba with the default template. You were too efficient fixing your config before 8.2.0

M3Rocket · September 29, 2017 at 8:04 AM

Yeah--I didn't see the error in the logs originally because debug/verbose wasn't turned on. So I actually went to Github to see the merged changes from 8.1.1 to 8.1.2 and spotted the code detection.