CFULLHDMA: Trying to understand Samba
May 31, 2008
The Conceptronic CFULLHDMA has an automatical way of finding Samba Shares, to make life easy for customers. The device is using ’smbtree’ for this purpose. smbtree is a text based network browser.
As I do a lot of testings I suddenly did not get any samba share to see on the CFULLHDMA anymore. Bummer, a bug? let’s find out …
Normally I have 6!! Samba shared devices in my network. Suddenly, after rebooting a PC (XP) and a NAS I lost all Samba shares to bee seen in my CFULLHDMA, reboot, turn off / turn on .. nothing helped.
Analyzing I found out following:
the smbtree was generating an error on the CFULLHDMA.
smbtree
session request to 192.168.1.30 failed (Called name not present)
Data overflow in cli_receive_trans
the 192.168.1.30 is my printserver, turning off that device only gave totally no output on running smbtree.
Using the same utility ’smbtree’ on my Centos webserver (where aroundmyroom.com is running at) generated the same error. For me it meant that it was not a bug on my CFULLHDMA but a general ‘error’ within my network. Checking my network neighbourhood at my XP machine revealed only 1 samba share: a rebooted nas device I had to reset to factory defaults and modified on IP level again (fixed) and where I changed its Samba Share name as well. The rest of my shares were even not seen at my XP system, Linux Server or CFULLHDMA.
To solve the issue I did following:
I rebooted my DSL modem (router / dns / dhcp device) & I rebooted all devices with samba shares and ran the smbtree command at my webserver (not rebooted) again.
Now I saw all samba shares again: (excerpt)
DOMAIN
\\RAID1 RAID1
\\RAID1\IPC$ IPC Service (RAID1)
\\RAID1\Volume_1
\\LAPTOP_LILIAN HP DV 9000
\\DEVELOPMENT Testing device
\\DEVELOPMENT\IPC$ IPC Service
\\DEVELOPMENT\test-share-remove test
\\DEVELOPMENT\bordertown
\\DENNIS-HP HP-DENNIS
\\DENNIS-HP\IPC$ Externe IPC
\\DENNIS-HP\Folder-DENNIS
\\CH3SNAS Grab’n'GO Media Store
\\CH3SNAS\Volume_1-1 Linux cifs
\\CH3SNAS\lp USB Printer
\\CH3SNAS\web_page Enter Our Web Page Setting
\\CH3SNAS\Volume_1
Starting the CFULLHDMA as well and I saw all my samba shares again.
Personally I do think it has to do with DNS/DHCP and the DSL router, but further i have totally no clue why suddenly all my samba shares were gone and that I had to do restarts to have them appear again. Maybe someone with more indeep samba / windows share knowledge can explain more.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I encountered a similar problem last weekend, suddenly all Samba shares were gone. Afer analyzing what has changed I discovered that a Vista PC was causing the problem. Switching off the firewall which blocked all incoming traffic on this PC solved the problem, all shares re-appaered at my FCULLHDMA. Maybe this may give you a clou what is causing the disappearing of shares. I think more people are having this problem.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
I still do not see my Samba shares on my QNAP209 NAS from my CF.
I tried to put only the CF and the NAS on my switch (no other devices) and it could not find any servers. From my windows Vista/XP machines I can use the Samba shares without any problem !!
Any help is welcome,
Rien
February 21st, 2009 at 10:21 am
Today I encountered a similar problem as described above, suddenly all Samba shares were gone on my CFULLHDMA firmware v01.15.08.06.21 . Several reboots of devices were not helping at all.
To solve the issue I did following:
I switched of the whole network and devices
I rebooted my DSL modem (router / dns / dhcp device) & I rebooted all devices with samba shares :
-first booted Linux boxes
-then the xp -pc\’s
-Starting the CFULLHDMA as well and I saw all my samba and XP shares again.
-then booted the vista pc\’s
-All my samba shares were still there.
Personally I do NOT think the FCULLHDMA or the CH3SNAS have something to do with it, because also in vista and xp I lost those shares.
but further I have totally no idea why suddenly all my samba shares were gone and that I had to do restarts to have them appear again. I suspect some vista (tools?)
Anyway the FCULLHDMA and the CH3SNAS is working fine again, Happy again
April 4th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Same problem here. Last weekend my shares vanished also.
I restarted everything in my network (2 PCs, 2 CH3SNAS, 1 other NAS, Router) nothing helped. Then I remembered I had the same problem half a year ago (something to do with summer/winter time change???).
The shares on both CH3SNAS are pasword protected. Half a year ago I removed users and passwords from both CH3SNAS and the problem was solved. Now I did it again and yes, the problem was solved again. I than changed users and passwords back to there original vallue and everything is still working fine. Now I am waiting for wintertime to see what happens then.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Hi,
I am unable to view any files on my linux machine (ubuntu 8)
If i do smbtree -b i will be asked for a password, but enter is also good enough and i get a list of shares on my linux machine (sort of nas with 4 terra storage) and the shares on my CH3 nas.
On my FULLHDMAi i see my NAS and my Linux machine but if i select my linux machine it always tells me that it couldn’t find any media files. My CH3 nas nicely shows 2 shares.
If i check from my win7 i get a list of shares with no questions asked :)
Why does the CHFULLHDMAi not display the shares and would it be a good idea to make the userinterface a bit more flexible then just relying on a selection? If you look at the HDX 1000 they can do everything with shares on all kinds of machines with or without passwords. They even have tons of options for web based content.
Help would be appreciated :)
Thanks,
Maarten