Samba is being bothersome

Configuration
#1

Still new to this, and I’m having a - for me- serious issue.
Samba does not seem to start. I press the start button, something flashes, bu the stop button does not appear. Ovbiously, the Pi does not appear in my Windows network.
When I use the configurator for Samba, it does NOT use the quotes (as detailed in many posts on Samba and HA). And once saved, I can’t access the config file anymore to experiment.

I’m kinda new at this HA stuff, somewhat familiar with Linux though. Please help.

Thanks, Pete

#2

The Samba Share addon?

Did you look at the addon log to see why it was not starting?

#3

Yes, I didn’t recognize anything, in fact, it claimed ‘started samba’ or something to that effect. Still. If it is started, I should see a stop button. And I can’t access the share from the Windows network.
Unfortunately I do not have access to the machine for the next couple of hours.

I do find it strange that the whole ‘use quotes’ affair detailed in many posts does not seem to be implemented as standard from the configurator. And that once a configuration is saved the configurator is hidden.

Pete

#4

It is not started.

Most likely you have a configuration problem.

Post the yaml version of your config (correctly formatted).

You can get the yaml version here:

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#5

I’d love to, but as I explained, once I save the config file for the first time, I can not access it anymore. When clicking the configuration tab I simply get the message ‘there is nothing for you to do here’ or something to that effect.

Which complicates matters. The only thing I seem to be able to d is uninstall Samba and reinstall it. Then I get the configuration option again, until the first time I press save.

Pete

#6

Oh! I’ve seen that. Refresh your web browser cache.

#7

OK. I’ll report in a few hours, I’m out with a customer now.

Pete

#8

Edit 2 : I’m being an idiot, aren’t I ? If I want to give access to any computer that is on 170.160.50.xxx I would have to set the mask to 170.160.50.1/24 ?

Edit : I’m getting somewhere. If under hosts I enter the IP of my PC I get access no problem. If I enter a range however, e.g. 170.160.50.1/255, no dice. Am I getting the format wrong ?

OK, there was a core update and now Samba starts fine.

However, I am unable to connect from Windows using the IP adres or otherwise.

Pete