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No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 22 Jun 2011, 10:29
by jjap
Hi,
I am using Bubba 2 in server mode in my LAN.
- I can access the web menu
- I can ssh into Bubba
However:
- No network share are shown in Gnome (Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 8.04) neither from Windows XP.
- My Roku soundbridge does not find any library although I added music (it streams Internet radio just fine) netstat does not show port 3689 (DAAP)
- Needless to say the network printing does not work either.
I other words nothing of what is supposed to happen automatically is.
I am a Linux user but not a geek, any hints on how to "kickstart" Bubba with respect to these functions is greatly appreciated.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 22 Jun 2011, 14:12
by DanielM
I don't know if this is a stupid question, but you have enabled the desired services in the configuration, right?
/Daniel
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 22 Jun 2011, 18:02
by ryz
There has been problems with samba not starting correctly. You should be able to find it if you search the forums. I do not now if this is fixed in the latest Bubba 2 release.
You could try to manualy start samba by running as root
By the way samba is responsible for the network share and printer share.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 23 Jun 2011, 00:00
by jjap
@ Daniel: very legitimate question, I should have mentioned the service was showing as "on" in the Web interface.
@ ryz: interesting posts about samba not starting right. Unfortunately adding the "sleep 2" as per Albert's post did not do the trick and the /var/log/samba/log.all shows a core dump after restart of the service.
I also tried your own suggestion of adding it to the /etc/init.d/networking script (although about B3 & unsure of the best place to add it in the file). The log file still shows warning "No network interface found" and concludes with a core dump. Puzzling... Thanks for the suggestions so far, I will keep on looking, but any hints are still appreciated.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 23 Jun 2011, 02:46
by DanielM
I notice now that you write that you use the Bubba in server mode. Guess that means there's another router between the Bubba and your computer, right? Could there be any firewall there only letting some ports through? Ports 80 and 22 seems quite logical to have open, but 3689 might not be.
/Daniel
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 23 Jun 2011, 21:58
by jjap
Thanks for the idea. Nothing ever "crosses" the router and its firewall, all being inside the LAN so, for one, the router is not the culprit.
Just to make sure that Bubba in server mode (also tried automatic configuration) does not keep the firewall up for some reason, I started by issuing the command iptables -F and the unit froze... Not whole lot of progress there but i'll keep on looking for an adequate way to make sure Bubba's firewall is disabled. Since so many services seem broken (samba and daap) the firewall hypothesis would make a lot of sense...
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 24 Jun 2011, 02:12
by sortsnak
I also had a problem with the samba service not starting. 1, it was enabled in the web, 2. checked the init.d for samba, 3 I checked that it was a @s06 in the rc2.d and the b3 was in init = 2.
I can't seem to find out why it does not start then - other than the service might try and start too soon in the booting process, so as a dirty fix I added "/etc/init.d/samba start&" in the rc.local file - which works every time.
I don't know if my squeezeserver works yet, I have a plan to try that out later.
I don't know if I'm the only one that added the debian repos to my server because there were things there I wanted installed. I done an "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" on my server as well and ofc got a few updates that way. However a question poped up that I was not sure what to answer to, I suspect it got to do with the bootup of the b3 and how the rc's is handled I just don't know the full impact of this command:
"dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc"
This is however the only thing I can think of that Ive done with my b3 which is not standard and might influence the service not to start.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 27 Jun 2011, 01:04
by ryz
jjap wrote:@ ryz: interesting posts about samba not starting right. Unfortunately adding the "sleep 2" as per Albert's post did not do the trick and the /var/log/samba/log.all shows a core dump after restart of the service.
Do you get an log of a core dump if you do an
as the root user? or was this just after an restart of the Bubba?
If you do get it after you explicitly run the start command you have some serious problem which has nothing to do with any firewall what so ever.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 28 Jun 2011, 22:06
by jjap
@ryz - Indeed the tail of /var/log/samba/log.all gives the same listing whether after booting or after issuing the command /etc/init.d/samba start as root. I am copying it here: (no message at the console though)
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[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] lib/interface.c:550(load_interfaces)
WARNING: no network interfaces found
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] smbd/server.c:616(open_sockets_smbd)
open_sockets_smbd: No sockets available to bind to.
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] smbd/server.c:837(exit_server_common)
===============================================================
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] smbd/server.c:839(exit_server_common)
Abnormal server exit: open_sockets_smbd() failed
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] smbd/server.c:840(exit_server_common)
===============================================================
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] lib/util.c:1584(log_stack_trace)
BACKTRACE: 6 stack frames:
#0 /usr/sbin/smbd(log_stack_trace+0x40) [0x102f4a24]
#1 /usr/sbin/smbd [0x105fb530]
#2 /usr/sbin/smbd [0x105fb6d8]
#3 /usr/sbin/smbd(main+0x7a8) [0x105fbf3c]
#4 /lib/tls/libc.so.6 [0xf8f0994]
#5 /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xb0) [0xf8f0ad0]
[2011/06/28 20:59:52, 0] lib/fault.c:321(dump_core)
dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd
Scanning the ports of bubba2 gives the following ports: 22, 80, 143, 443, 993.
@sortsnak, checked (although unsure of what is meant in 3). The unit was back from a warranty replacement (fried board and disk!) no modifications were made on the unit. Good luck when to get around with squeezeserver..
Again thanks for any ideas or suggestions and your efforts in trying to help so far.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 00:17
by sortsnak
If that log is from when you tried to start samba up manually and the B3 has been up for lets say some minuts, I think you want to dump your /etc/samba/smb.conf and what output you get on a command like: 'ifconfig'.
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 10:29
by jjap
Sure here is smb.conf
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# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = famille
server string = %h Miniserver
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.all
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
security = user
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
guest account = nobody
invalid users = root
map to guest = Bad User
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
preferred master = yes
load printers = yes
printcap name = cups
printing = cups
show add printer wizard = no
disable spoolss = Yes
interfaces = eth1
bind interfaces only = yes
#======================= Share Definitions =======================
[home]
comment = Home Directories
path = /home
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0764
directory mask = 0775
public = no
guest ok = no
hide dotfiles = yes
user = @users
hide files = /lost+found/
hide special files = yes
[storage]
comment = Common storage
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
force group = users
force create mode= 0777
force directory mode = 0777
path = /home/storage
hide files = /lost+found/
hide special files = yes
[printers]
comment = Attached printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = yes
printable = yes
use client driver = yes
And the ifconfig output:
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# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:02:00:11:34
inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:2ff:fe00:1134/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:18536 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16767 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1782557 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:4812887 (4.5 MiB)
Base address:0xc000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:02:00:11:35
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:20300 (19.8 KiB) TX bytes:20300 (19.8 KiB)
Not clear on the meaning of all this, but I notice smb.conf has eth1 listed in it whereas eth0 is used by the server..
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 11:10
by sortsnak
Thats exactly my point, there is no association with the eth1, infact if there is no cable in eth1, that could explain why samba is not able to load on a disabled networkadapter.
I would advice you to change the config of smb.conf to eth0 and restart the samba service and then see how it looks then. I would have no idea if the same could apply to the media server. But check the config too
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 16:10
by ryz
I do not think it is a good idea to fiddle with the samba configuration file since this is most likely only fixing the symptom and not the cause. The cause is most likely that you have set up the B2 wrong from the start.
How have you set up the Bubba network settings. What profile is you using. Do you want to use i as a router or a standalone server?
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 16:43
by Ubi
what happens if you stick the network cable into the other RJ45 socket and reboot?
Re: No share, no media server - Bubba 2
Posted: 29 Jun 2011, 17:12
by jjap
My very first attempt (out of the box) was to set it as the firewall-router-server of my LAN. As some of the functionalities (notably in my wife's Facebook account!!) were disabled, I reverted (essentially changing physical connections and rebooting it behind my regular router (enabled as a DHCP server),
- first in "server only" mode,
- then in "automatic network setting" mode.
Both with the same outcome: samba and mt-daapd services not running or startable.
The emabrrassing part
Now "Ubi",s message comes in and I realize I, bonehead, did not in the process switch the cable from the WAN to the LAN port
Now done, the shares appear in Nautilus and I am hopeful for the rest of the road...
Conclusion
My apologies to all for waisting your time on a dead simple issue. My only solace is to think if ever someone (dumber than me if that exists) does the same mistake, this tread is there to stress the importance of triple checking the user manual (scenario 6 ~page 8 )... Again many thanks to all of you for the help, which I am probably not worthy of...