Issues with Sama and Hostname Resolution

[apowell656]

I recently upgraded from a 4 GB stick to a 500 GB hard drive. I reinstalled fresh and used my notes from the original install to prevent any issues. Well, that did not work so well.

Samba kind of works:
- I am able to see my home folder but unable to write to my additional drive (I use this for media)
- I have the Samba setup the same as on my two other Plugs with no luck - the only difference is the other two do not have devmon installed but its predecessor.
- From my notes
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.default /etc/samba/smb.conf
add a user - pdbedit -a -u <user> "owner"
start samba and nmbd - systemctl start smbd nmbd
enable as daemon - systemctl enable smbd nmbd
From webmin I add the share for simplicity')
- Followed the guide from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba with no luck

Hostname resolution issues

From my original notes:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'configure - nano /etc/nsswitch.conf
change hosts: files dns to hosts: files dns myhostname mdns4_minimal mdns4
1/26/14 - files myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
systemctl enable avahi-dnsconfd avahi-daemon.service
systemctl start avahi-dnsconfd avahi-daemon.service')

[apowell656]

Hostname resolution: used DHCP reservation on my router (Airport Extreme) and added hostname to the hosts file on my computer. The only difference that I see on the three Plugs is the other two are using netcfg and not netctl. So my previous notes are now invalid, and I will have to decide how and if to update the other two devices in which I am only using them as web servers.

Samba resolution: From what I can see from Google there are a lot of issues with Macs and Samba now. Decided to install the my.pogoplug.com service software to gain some of control to which/how local users connect to the device.

All in all not the way that I thought it should work, but at least it is workable.

- Andre