SAMBA password authentication

LybsterKodi · April 15, 2023 at 9:17 AM

I've downloaded and installed the v11 nightly from 14/04/2023 and set it to use password authentication for SAMBA. However, when I connect via my Windows PC I'm not asked for a password. Is there a new option I need to set/unset somewhere?

**mglae** · April 15, 2023 at 1:05 PM

Thread

Samba service- query about default settings and users

Hi.

With the generic 11.0.1 LE on an Intel NUC 11th gen I'm wondering about the LE settings/services/samba service. It can be enabled and protected via a username and pass.

So I enabled it and set a username and pass and tried to access it from a Linux machine (via Dolphin) and it seemed to work..except it didn't seem to trigger an auth dialog everr, which made me ssh to the NUC and do testparm to see that the default samba settings were what's in .config/samba.conf.sample which meant both …

lampahojd

April 5, 2023 at 6:13 AM

LybsterKodi · April 15, 2023 at 2:45 PM

Read it, not sure its the same problem. lampahojd seems to be talking about defaults and the username/password not being recognised. My problem is not defaults it when I explicitly set LibreElec to request a password and it doesn't. I'm just given access to the RPi4 with no authorisation.

Little more information: I can copy files to/from the HDD connected to the RPi4 and delete them but I can't rename them.

**mglae** · April 15, 2023 at 3:36 PM

What if you reboot or execute the three commands of the other thread? (regarding the PW issue)

LybsterKodi · April 15, 2023 at 6:17 PM

Reboot - no problem.

I'll try the commands tomorrow

LybsterKodi · April 16, 2023 at 9:24 AM

Tried it -

LibreELEC (community): nightly-20230414-03cdde3 (RPi4.arm)

KPi:~ # systemctl stop samba

Failed to stop samba.service: Unit samba.service not loaded.

KPi:~ # /usr/lib/samba/samba-config

/usr/lib/samba/smbd-config: /storage/.cache/services/samba.conf: line 7: Light: not found

Is there a specific directory I should try to run it in?

I'm also confused. If the samba service isn't loaded and running how is samba working?

**mglae** · April 16, 2023 at 9:42 AM

Sorry, the service is called smbd. I've updated the post.

Code

KPi:~ # /usr/lib/samba/samba-config
/usr/lib/samba/smbd-config: /storage/.cache/services/samba.conf: line 7: Light: not found

Please post the output of cat /storage/.cache/services/samba.conf. You may like to modify your user name/password.

LybsterKodi · April 16, 2023 at 10:04 AM

As requested

SAMBA_WORKGROUP=WG

SAMBA_SECURE=true

SAMBA_AUTOSHARE=true

SAMBA_MINPROTOCOL=SMB2

SAMBA_MAXPROTOCOL=SMB3

SAMBA_USERNAME=MyName

SAMBA_PASSWORD=MyPassword

LybsterKodi · April 16, 2023 at 12:47 PM

I think its more than just the password logon that's wrong. I'm trying to sort out some miss-named thumbnails (OK in the RPi3 but not here - mainly case differences) and whilst doing so found a number of videosseemed to have vanished - mild hard drive corruption so they could be recovered.

I keep making an attempt to switch to the RPi4 but keep having to revert to the RPi3s. I had hoped that this time it would have worked but I'm beginning to doubt it.

Sorry to sound so negative but I started this journey September 2021 and I'm still not there.

**HiassofT** · April 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM

Do you have a space in your password? It looks like LE will trip over that (and maybe other special characters, too) - so avoid them.

so long,

Hias

**mglae** · April 16, 2023 at 2:19 PM

Yes, User Name and Password are not escaped when saved. Beside Space avoid at least "'\|&$()?*~#<>{},;[]!`^

LybsterKodi · April 16, 2023 at 3:16 PM

I did have an & in the password. Changed it and no difference so far. I can't reboot for a couple of hours since its busy recording.

Some thoughts went through my head when I read your two posts

1. why do you restrict the characters typed into a password field

2. if you do restrict them why don't you warn the user that their password is invalid (preferably why as well) and prevent it being stored

3. I know its low risk and I should have said something years ago but you should not be storing the password itself

I'll let you know tomorrow if the Pi needs a password after rebooting.

I've just rebooted.

The bad news is that changing the password whilst TVHeadend is recording caused things to lock up and forced to reboot. I'll be explaining to my friend tomorrow that the rugby he wanted to watch has vanished

On the good news side I'm now being prompted to log in and it looks as though (no idea why) the samba password having invalid characters was what was causing a 30seconds + when the HDD was coming out of spin down state.