Hello,
I made a fresh install with kodi 17 on a on CuBox-i4 and copied over /root/.kodi. Thanks to the good work of the GeeXboX team it worked immediately.
However I realized that the GeeXboX was not visible to my other Samba/Netbios/SMB devices anymore. I could access it using in explorer: \ip-of-geexbox
The Samba server consists of at least 2 daemons, nmbd (Samba NetBIOS Name Service) and smbd (Samba File Sharing Service). I know that the Samba NetBIOS Name Service is not needed for recent Windows, but it is more convenient to use the browsing feature in some explorer implementations on e.g. Android.
“systemctl status smbd.service” showed that smbd was up and running, whereas “systemctl status nmbd.service” showed that the unit was inactive.
Enabling the unit nmbd.service and a reboot lead to the following entries in the log.
Jan 01 01:00:07 geexbox systemd[1]: nmbd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 01 01:00:07 geexbox systemd[1]: nmbd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 01 01:00:07 geexbox systemd[1]: nmbd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Therefore I compared the actual nmbd.service file with older versions.
In the current nmbd.service the line Before=smbd.service is missing in the section [Unit].
So a nmbd.service should look like this.
[Unit]
Description=Samba NetBIOS Name Service
ConditionPathExists=/run/geexbox/network/smbd
Before=smbd.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nmbd -F
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I added the line and after a reboot GeeXboX is visible again to all my other Samba/Netbios/SMB devices.
As I had to spent some time on it maybe my findings are useful to others.
Best regards, Grisu
tomlohave 3 weeks, 4 days ago.
