[ solved ] Cubox, samba package and authorisation

[skelosParticipant]

Hi all,

at first, I would to thank minds behind this fantastic distro! I tryied all (ubuntu ARM, linaro, Archlinux, and so on…) but only GeeXboX works with my unlucky Cubox.

Today I downloaded samba pachage from http://download.openbricks.org/cubox/packages/samba-server_3.5.10-1_armv7.opk and installed it. I saw /root folder of my Cubox calling //192.169.144.5 in windows 7 without user/password. So it appears working because I can create subfolders in /root/ folder. But, when i try to create a folder in a mounted external hard disk (visible at /media/HARDDISK) I get an error from windows 7 : “This operation require an autorisation” and two buttons ‘Retry’ and ‘Cancel’.

May need a user/passord and login with samba or it is a mounting problem?

Please help me… I need to write on my external HD using samba…

Thank you a lot.

Skelos.

[tomlohaveModerator]

ok, first did you modify

/etc/smb.conf ?

[global]
server string = OpenBricks(%i)
security = share
guest account = root
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
wins support = no
syslog only = yes

[root]
path = /
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

# To add a writable share of a disk under /mnt uncomment and edit the
# following share declaration
# ‘mydisk’ is the disk name as seen by OpenBricks
;[mydisk]
;Â path = /mnt/mydisk
;Â available = yes
;Â browsable = yes
;Â public = yes
;Â writable = yes
;Â root preexec = /usr/bin/rw /mnt/mydisk
;Â root postexec = /usr/bin/ro /mnt/mydisk

look at the end, maybe you can add the path to your shared disk ?

i’m not a specialist af samba but you can try that at least

[skelosParticipant]

Thank you man for your answare.

Now I know is a File system problem: my external hard disk is NTFS and other USB pens are Fat32. On pens I write correctly, on external HD not. So, the difference is file system type but I don’t know why, because Openbriks supports NTFS….

[tomlohaveModerator]

yes, I checked, ntfs-3g is included

can you post the result of command line

cat /proc/mounts

else you can try :

assuming your hdd drive is sdb

umomunt /dev/sdb1

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /your/mount/point

with cat /proc/mounts

you can see if your harddrive is mounted read only (ro ) or read-write (rw)

[skelosParticipant]

Ok man.

# cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=319288k,nr_inodes=79822,mode=755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /media tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/Boot ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/2TB ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=iso8859-1,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1 0 0

Black is my external disk, it appears mountd as RW…

If I do

umomunt /dev/sdb1

ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /your/mount/point

it works!!! I can write!!

But, how can I mount it automatically with ntfs-3g ?

Thank you again man!

[tomlohaveModerator]

i have added another patch to udisks, can you test this : connect to your box via telent , putty … then do :

opkg install -force-reinstall http://download.openbricks.org/cubox/packages/udisks_1.0.4-1_armv7.opk

reboot

Does it work ?

[skelosParticipant]

I did it. But it doesn’t work. Following stapes:

I use cable (for now) to access Internet and when I typed your command only this happened:

Downloading http://download.openbricks.org/cubox/packages/udisks_1.0.4-1_armv7.opk.

Nothing else: download never did. I waited for many minutes. So, I downloaded opk package and installed it via Usb pen on my cubox typing:

# cd /media/PENDRIVE/
# opkg install -force-reinstall udisks_1.0.4-1_armv7.opk

It shows:

Installing udisks (1.0.4-1) to root…
Configuring udisks.

after that :

reboot

but nothing changed.

I did also:

umount /dev/sda1

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/2TB

and this works again.

I hope this may be usefull for you.

[tomlohaveModerator]

remove entry ntfs in /etc/filesystems

[tomlohaveModerator]

i’m trying to reproduce this

just need to find a free usb stick ….

[tomlohaveModerator]

ok found a solution …

mv /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs
/ntfs.ko2

reboot

it works here

[skelosParticipant]

Ok, I leaved each entry from /etc/filesystem using vi command. It was only one, first row. Nothing else into /etc/filesystem: now it is empty.

I rebooted. Same problem: no write.

Good search!

[tomlohaveModerator]

i found the solution ?

please restore value ntfs in /etc/filesystems

[skelosParticipant]

Ok. I tryied your command:

mv /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko2

and…

GREAT IT WORKS!!

So, I did following steps:

1)Â Â In console I update the package:

  opkg install –force-reinstall http://download.openbricks.org/cubox/packages/udisks_1.0.4-1_armv7.opk

 reboot

2) I launched this comand:

mv /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko /lib/modules/3.5.3/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko2

and It works!

[tomlohaveModerator]

to be clear :

• no need to update package , it works without the patch
• no need to remove value ntfs in /etc/filesystems
• just move out ntfs.ko

[tommyscott45Member]

under cifs I have the same read only problem

here is the cat /proc/mounts output

//192.168.1.19/movies /mnt/shares/Drobo-FS/movies cifs ro,mand,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=XXXX,domain=DROBO-FS,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168.1.19,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,iocharset=utf8,nounix,serverino,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,actimeo=1 0 0

any ideas?

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