can not install samba on pogo E02

[confucius]

Following the installation tutorial on this site, I successfully installed the archlinux on my pogoplug E02 using 32G nano flash drive by Sandisk.

However, I searched many places and can hardly find any clear instructions on how to install Samba. I followed instructions here http://yltan.com/blog/part-2-setting-po ... ba-server/
But got my flash drive frozen and not bootable. I had to reformat the flash drive, install archlinux again. I stayed up till 2:30AM and could not get the samba set up.

Is there any easy to follow instructions for a linux Newbie to install Samba on Archlinux?

Thank you,

[Socaltom]

I would avoid that page, his advice is dangerous, and he doesn't explain what he is doing.

A good resource is the arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/

Read up on pacman
( -Syu updates everything avoid that unless you have a good backup, its often problematic)

-Sy installs packages, and updates your database of packages

-Ss searches the package repositories for the text that follows

To install samba
do
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Sy samba')

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba

to install webmin

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Sy webmin')

edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf to add your ip to the line
allow = 192.168.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webmin

Once you have both installed you can use the samba file sharing module in webmin to create shares and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Tom

[confucius]

Thanks for the information. I got webmin up and running. However, after the configuration following these steps http://www.webmin.com/samba-howto.html and click restart samba server. I got this error message. Failed to restart Samba servers : /etc/rc.d/samba start failed

[tedm]

some of the wiki pages haven't updated outdated SysV scripts to systemd yet.

try: systemctl [start/stop/restart/status] webmin and/or samba


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('confucius', 'T')hanks for the information. I got webmin up and running. However, after the configuration following these steps http://www.webmin.com/samba-howto.html and click restart samba server. I got this error message. Failed to restart Samba servers : /etc/rc.d/samba start failed

[confucius]

Thanks for your reply. I managed to see Samba Server and after the click I see the shared folder "home" on my windows 7 64bit machine.

However, my Windows 7 64 bit machine can not access the shared folder "home". The error message says "....not
accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.....

not enough storage is available to process this command"

Windows 7 64bit.

[confucius]

here is the picture of the error message I got.

[Socaltom]

Try taking the space out of the sever name "samba server"

[confucius]

I mounted another USB drive to /mnt/usbdisk1 and created a share folder called test. The problem has solved.
Now I have a new problem. I can not write to the shared folder.

I also used "chmod -R 777 /mnt/usbdisk1/shared" but still no avail.

Here is my configration file
[global]
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
load printers = yes
netbios name = Samba Server
writeable = yes
server string = Samba Server
workgroup = WORKGROUP
os level = 20
encrypt passwords = yes
public = yes
security = share
max log size = 50
read only = no
force user = sambauser

[test]
path = /mnt/usbdisk1/shared

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Socaltom', 'T')ry taking the space out of the sever name "samba server"

[rty]

These 3 lines do not belong to the "global" section:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')public = yes
read only = no
writeable = yes

[sjwoo]

Is there something I'm missing here?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@pogo ~]# systemctl start samba.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit samba.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status samba.service' for details.
[root@pogo ~]# systemctl status samba.service
samba.service
Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

[root@pogo ~]# ls /etc/samba/smb.conf
/etc/samba/smb.conf
[root@pogo ~]#')