I have two buildings on our lot, the house and barn. They’re far enough apart that they’re out of wifi range. They’re connected with underground fiber optic cables that, from a networking point of view, look like long ethernet cables. In other words, the LAN in the two buildings is the same, in the same address space, controlled by the same DHCP server on one firewall, and they appear to be just one big LAN. But, since I use Z-Wave and Insteon, I need a Pi running HA in each building.
The house HA Pi is “Imladris.” The barn one is “Lothlorien.” I’m using Samba backup and the idea is to backup configs from the house in //greatsmials/NetStore/ConfigBackups/HA-Imladris and to store the ones in the barn in //greatsmials/NetStore/ConfigBackups/HA-Lothlorien. For now, I have Imladris working and, for testing, I tried that same directory for the Lothlorien/barn system. I have the same config in both, but the Lothlorien system always gets errors that it can’t talk to the share.
Here’s the configs, Imladris (working one) first:
And here’s the Lothlorien one (non-working):
And here are the logs from Lothlorien when I try to start it up:
Note that, with both systems, I’m using the guest account to connect to the network share. The configs, at least to me, look identical, but one system connects and the other can’t.
