CIFS Share not created

[dgoodrich]

We have been using two FreeNAS boxes successfully for over a year now. In troubleshooting a hardware issue we needed to add a new volume and share it to create some write traffic on a previously unused backplane board.

We can create the CIFS share, the new share survives a reboot, but the share never appears in /usr/local/etc/smb.conf and no share is available. Previously created shares are working fine.

Currently running 9.1.1 on Backblaze hardware.

Thanks for any assistance.

DAve

 

[cyberjock]

Umm.... what? No share is available but the share survives a reboot? How is that possible?

smb.conf is at /etc/local/smb.conf

 

[dgoodrich]

The share in the GUI survives, but no share is available on the network. /etc/local/smb.conf is also unchanged after adding the share to the GUI, just like /usr/local/etc/smb.conf. The GUI shares are never populated to the conf files.

Since we are not supposed to use the CLI, how do we get the GUI to work?

Thanks,

DAve

 

[cyberjock]

I don't know what to say.. did you turn the service on? You're the only one I've ever heard that didn't have a share get created.

 

[dgoodrich]

Yea the service is running, that is why the previous created shares are available.

- System has been restarted numerous times.
- The service has been restarted several times.
- New shares have been created and deleted a dozen times at least, none have worked.
- The smb.conf file is touched each time, so the GUI is writing the file, but it is not adding the new share to the file. Here I did nothing but restart the service this morning.

Code:

[root@FreeNAS-02] /usr/local/etc# ls -la /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2611 Dec 18 14:56 /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
[root@FreeNAS-02] /usr/local/etc# ls -la /etc/local/smb.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2611 Dec 18 14:56 /etc/local/smb.conf
[ restarted the CIFS service ]
[root@FreeNAS-02] /usr/local/etc# ls -la /etc/local/smb.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2611 Dec 19 08:12 /etc/local/smb.conf
[root@FreeNAS-02] /usr/local/etc# ls -la /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2611 Dec 19 08:12 /usr/local/etc/smb.conf

and no change, the new smb.conf contains only the old shares.

Perplexing and aggravating.

DAve

 

[dgoodrich]

The samba logs are fine, no errors there. Is there a GUI log or FreeNAS log that can tell me anything?

 

[dlavigne]

Is the new volume UFS or ZFS? Also, post a screenshot of View Windows (CIFS) Shares.

 

[dgoodrich]

ZFS. testboard is the share we are trying to create. Static Data and Video work just fine. Since this morning I saved the config of this FreeNAS, replaced the USB stick and installed a fresh copy of FreeNAS 9.1.1, uploaded the config, no change to the behavior of the CIFS sharing.

It's gotta be something silly simple, what am I missing?

 

[dgoodrich]

Yea, I had a folder in the path when I created the share and the destination folder did not exist yet. Created the folder and everything works. Funny no error message anywhere, the first thing I checked was the logs!

DAve

 

[cyberjock]

lol.. You know, I almost asked that question too!