Samba work poorly or not at all

[Marthinius]

System: Armbian 5.38 stable Debian/stretch

 

Hello,

Samba is not working properly. Not shown in Network places (Ubuntu, Mint....). It is accessible only via smb: //xxx.xxx.xxx

 

Terminal Info:

systemctl status smbd

 

systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...

systemd[1]: smbd.service: Supervising process 30013 which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits.

Started Samba SMB Daemon.

 

journalctl -xe | grep smbd

 

smbd[1026]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody " I used smbpasswd -a user"

sudo[2743]:     root : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/root ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/init.d/smbd status

 

smbd[4343]: [2018/08/14 09:07:35.796225,  0] ../lib/util/debug.c:951(reopen_logs_internal)

smbd[4343]:   Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/log.smbd': No such file or directory

systemd[1]: smbd.service: Supervising process 4344 which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits.

 

journalctl -xe | grep nmb

 

nmbd[4313]: mkdir failed on directory /var/log/samba/cores: No such file or directory

nmbd[4313]: Failed to create /var/log/samba/cores for user 0 with mode 0700

nmbd[4313]: Unable to setup corepath for nmbd: No such file or directory

nmbd[4313]: [2018/08/14 09:07:35.268683,  0] ../lib/util/debug.c:951(reopen_logs_internal)

nmbd[4313]:   Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/log.': No such file or directory

nmbd[4313]: [2018/08/14 09:07:35.272491,  0] ../lib/util/debug.c:951(reopen_logs_internal)

nmbd[4313]:   Unable to open new log file '/var/log/samba/log.nmbd': No such file or directory

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tkaiser]

Your board crashed, log2ram was not able to write /var/log contents back to disk and an 'mkdir -p /var/log/samba ; reboot' as root will most probably fix it.

[Marthinius]

I tried that. After reboot systemctl status:

 samba.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: inactive (dead)

 

I've also tried the command as sudo:

 

systemctl unmask smbd.service nmbd.service

 

systemctl enable nmbd smbd

 

Nothing help.

 

[Marthinius]

Ok...I formatted the SD card and re-install the system. First I tried to install Samba. Still same problem on clean system.I tried the ubuntu, debian. Nothing help...still same error

 

SAMBA SERVICE LOADED: MASKED (/dev/null,bad)

Active: inactive (dead)

 

This is probably a bad installation script for samba

 

Status:

systemctl unmask samba

systemctl enable samba

systemctl restart samba

...some error after tried restart samba so:

rm -R /var/cache/samba/*

sudo rm /lib/systemd/system/samba.service

sudo systemctl enable samba.service nmbd.service

sudo systemctl start samba

 

And now systemctl status samba is clear and run....