status update about 1.04RC5 firmware and reported bugs

1. After reboot, the time is 1 hour behind: can be reproduced and will be fixed now

2. Firefox cannot change password from user: can be reproduced and will be fixed now

3. HDD cannot be in standby: cannot be reproduced

4. Unicode part under review when mounting samba share with unicode characters (not displayed properly on cfullhdma, when using nfs no problem

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Is the following line for mounting samba shares a good one?

smbmount //server/share /tmp/mountpoing -o lfs,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,username=xx,password=xx

Or has someone a better mount line? Like something with CIFS?

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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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