Samba Shares Problem

[jchiso]

I have a couple of Ubuntu Trusty (14.04) systems with Samba shares that don't require password authentication and can connect to the shares with Linux and Android systems, but cannot with Windows or Sage Media Extenders (HD-100s or HD-300s).

I can browse the shares, but attempts to play any of the content produces a " ... file no longer on disk ... " message when connected via the "Browse Media Files" menu option in Client or Placeshifter. The files are seen and can play on the media extenders if they are accessed via the "File Manager" menu in the startup screen.

Anyone have any ideas why these permissions are recognized differently by these two methods?

[chmilar]

I ran into the same problem, but I am running SageTV on Windows, so I don't know if this applies to Linux.

In my case, when I run SageTV as a service on Windows, I am getting the same "file no longer on disk" message for any shows stored on a NAS4Free file server, which are shared via Samba (SMB).

If I turn off the service (using SageTVServiceControl.exe) and then run the SageTV app on my main Windows SageTV machine, I can access the files on the SMB server.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by chmilar

I ran into the same problem, but I am running SageTV on Windows, so I don't know if this applies to Linux.

In my case, when I run SageTV as a service on Windows, I am getting the same "file no longer on disk" message for any shows stored on a NAS4Free file server, which are shared via Samba (SMB).

If I turn off the service (using SageTVServiceControl.exe) and then run the SageTV app on my main Windows SageTV machine, I can access the files on the SMB server.

For your windows install, at least, what user is the service running as? If it is running as LocalService, it does not have access to network shares. You can change it to a full user in SageTVServiceControl.exe

[chmilar]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

For your windows install, at least, what user is the service running as? If it is running as LocalService, it does not have access to network shares. You can change it to a full user in SageTVServiceControl.exe

That fixes the problem (for Windows, at least). Thanks!

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by chmilar

... If I turn off the service (using SageTVServiceControl.exe) and then run the SageTV app on my main Windows SageTV machine, I can access the files on the SMB server.

Can you play the files on the Linux placeshifter? My problem is that the server is Linux-based, so I cannot run the Windows executable ...

[RocKKer]

Sorry I can't remember why I set my Samba shares the way I did. It was long ago when I found that this works for me.

In my smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
netbios name = MEDIA
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072
hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/24, 127.
hosts deny = ALL
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
[media]
        comment = Media
        path = /raid
        create mask = 0777
        force create mode = 0777
        directory security mask = 0777
        force directory security mode = 0777
        browsable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        read only = no

"/raid" is owned by root with perms of 777. I have several other shares created as well but this gives the model. Everything under /raid is owned by nobody:nogroup, all with 777 perms. To start out, I might start at the root of your shares and

chmod -R 777 *

For added effect you may need to change ownership of the files under your share with a

chown -R nobody:nogroup *