Samba question

[avalon60]

In /usr/local/etc there was smb4.conf and smb4.conf.save or smb4.confsave. I can't recall which now. A few days ago I setup some shares on 3 Ubuntu pcs, and to do it I created a new section for smb4conf and smb4.conf save, called SharedMedia, with the correct path etc.
Today, my Frenas server was shutdown without warning, and after a short while it booted back up ok.
Since the reboot, the new section I created in smb4.conf has disappeared and the actual smb4.confsave file has also disappeared.
Hence all the shares I had on 3 ubuntu machines had dissappeared as well

I have now added the new SharedMedia section back into smb4.conf. , and the shares are also back.

Anyone know why it happened.

 

[anodos]

In /usr/local/etc there was smb4.conf and smb4.conf.save or smb4.confsave. I can't recall which now. A few days ago I setup some shares on 3 Ubuntu pcs, and to do it I created a new section for smb4conf and smb4.conf save, called SharedMedia, with the correct path etc.
Today, my Frenas server was shutdown without warning, and after a short while it booted back up ok.
Since the reboot, the new section I created in smb4.conf has disappeared and the actual smb4.confsave file has also disappeared.
Hence all the shares I had on 3 ubuntu machines had dissappeared as well

I have now added the new SharedMedia section back into smb4.conf. , and the shares are also back.

Anyone know why it happened.

Because you're supposed to use the UI to add shares? ;) Manual edits to smb4.conf are erased any time that the smb4.conf file is regenerated.

 

[avalon60]

The shares are there in the UI, but one of them has a 2 word name which I could not get mounted on my desktop.
How then do I add a new section in the UI, so that all the shares are mounted. In my /etc/fstab file in ubuntu using :
//192.168.0.22/WindowsMedia /mnt/SharedMedia cifs credentials=/home/rob/.smbclient,uid=rob 0 0

mounts all the shares in one line, but doing it for each type of share takes up several lines