Hey guys, Im trying to figure out how to make setup my Samba drive to only be accessible with a specific username and password combination I have setup. But I can't seem to find any instructions that shows you how to do so for Samba 4 on OpenWRT. Im using OpenWrt 19.07.4 on a Archer A7 V5
Yeah sorry user level access needs manual configuration, we don't have official luci scripts for it.
Check this guide at the end: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/nas/samba_configuration
Samba3/4 has the same steps if i remember correctly.
PS: I think there was a guy that made a script to-do most of the stuff, but i forgot to bookmark it, maybe search the forum?
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I followed that but it still keeps saying Read-only system when I try to write anything to it
Post the output:
uci show fstab; block info
root@OpenWrt:~# uci show fstab; block info
fstab.@global[0]=global
fstab.@global[0].anon_swap='0'
fstab.@global[0].anon_mount='0'
fstab.@global[0].auto_swap='1'
fstab.@global[0].auto_mount='1'
fstab.@global[0].delay_root='5'
fstab.@global[0].check_fs='0'
fstab.@mount[0]=mount
fstab.@mount[0].target='/mnt/sda1'
fstab.@mount[0].uuid='fd3dc231-d9d2-48ad-af8b-1fb954a6004c'
fstab.@mount[0].enabled='0'
fstab.@mount[1]=mount
fstab.@mount[1].target='/overlay'
fstab.@mount[1].uuid='4f1295b8-bce3-4992-94bc-7461bb7e7a0b'
fstab.@mount[1].enabled='0'
/dev/mtdblock4: UUID="5fa9ed01-18406008-ac87442a-2dddbdb6" VERSION="4.0" MOUNT="/rom" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mtdblock5: TYPE="jffs2"
/dev/sda1: UUID="fd3dc231-d9d2-48ad-af8b-1fb954a6004c" VERSION="1.0" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="4f1295b8-bce3-4992-94bc-7461bb7e7a0b" VERSION="1.0" MOUNT="/overlay" TYPE="ext4"
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Try this way:
chmod -R a=rwX /mnt/sda1
For some reason, I make changes to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and it doesn't load up on luci and vice versa, how do I fix that?
It's problematic to diagnose unless there's a specific error message.
You can rename that file and reinstall the package to revert the settings.
Then check diff for old and new configs.
There, I just deleted all of the configuration files for it and reinstalled the app and seems to be allowing me to create folders. Im currently doing a Deja Dup backup to it, will post once it finishes
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This file is auto generated by the init service on every smb service start and than symlinked from /tmp to /etc/samba. To make permanent changes edit the smb.template file.
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Finally, it finished backing up and it actually got everything. Though I'm considering going to NFS since I just found out that Samba doesn't support UNIX permissions, which I need for Rsync. How difficult is it to setup NFS?
I actually have that installed, but RSync oddly still errors out about Unix permissions
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OH I have that on my computer, not on the router itself, give me a sec and try it out
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Oh wait, I already have it already on the router
# OpenWrt
opkg update
opkg install shadow-useradd
useradd -m -s /bin/ash user_name
passwd user_name
# PC
ssh-copy-id openwrt
ssh openwrt
rsync openwrt:
Er, what do the commands do?
This is in case you want to configure per-user SFTP access.
What about the permissions issue though? For some reason Samba doesn't like it when I try to save with Unix permissions reserved. From what I heard apparently Samba doesn't support this at all, that's why im looking at using NFS instead of Samba, unless there's a way to make Samba take Unix permissions.
Post the error message.
**** default - Sun Oct 25 21:58:34 2020
** Launching RSYNC command:
rsync -r -t -p -o -g -v --progress -s /home/novaviper/Downloads/math2070exam2 /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=backup/Test
sending incremental file list
rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=backup/Test/math2070exam2": Operation not supported (95)
math2070exam2/
math2070exam2/.~lock.Exam2 Content#
83 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#1, to-chk=5/7)
math2070exam2/2012_Book_OrdinaryDifferentialEquations.pdf
rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=backup/Test/math2070exam2/.~lock.Exam2 Content#.39VgWY" failed: Operation not supported (95)
32,768 0% 31.25MB/s 0:00:00
4,964,798 100% 28.18MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#2, to-chk=4/7)
math2070exam2/Exam2 Content
36 100% 0.21kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#3, to-chk=3/7)
rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=backup/Test/math2070exam2/.Exam2 Content.9RVt20" failed: Operation not supported (95)
math2070exam2/Table 2-1.png
rsync: [receiver] mkstemp "/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=192.168.1.1,share=backup/Test/math2070exam2/.Table 2-1.png.9mEBt1" failed: Operation not supported (95)
32,701 100% 188.96kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#4, to-chk=2/7)
math2070exam2/Table2.2+2.3.png
74,815 100% 429.77kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#5, to-chk=1/7)
math2070exam2/Table2.4.png
32,768 77% 70.48kB/s 0:00:00
42,165 100% 90.70kB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#6, to-chk=0/7)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1330) [sender=v3.2.3]
sent 5,116,354 bytes received 134 bytes 10,232,976.00 bytes/sec
total size is 5,114,598 speedup is 1.00
Rsync process exit status: 23
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Try mounting with vers=3.0 option.
PS: samba4 fully supports unix permissions and ACL's, but its a bit tricky to mount those correctly depending on the kernel cifs mount or samba mount client.
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