Samba what am I doing wrong?

[BigBoy]

I have a Hyper-V Debian server running my pihole and want to make better use of the server, so I decided to see how well I could share from and to it, so following This guide I installed samba and set it up exactly as per the guide but I get the following error when I do /etc/init.d/samba status

Any Idea what I've done wrong or what I need to change?

Thanks.

 

[BigBoy]

The SMB.conf is fine checked before starting services and it's all good, started the services independently and they work as they should, but I still cannot access the share, will post my conf in a sec.

 

[BigBoy]

smb.conf is as follows

[global]
workgroup = REGIMENT
server role = standalone server

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browsable = yes
writable = yes

[public]
path = /media/storage/
public = yes
writable = yes
comment = Linux Share
printable = no
only guest = yes

Permissions for /media/storage/ are 777

 

[BigBoy]

 

[BigBoy]

If i try accessing the share from another machine this is what I get

I cannot even mount it within the VM

 

[BigBoy]

Will add the log lines later,

/media/storage was created by user with sudo permissions, then chmod 777 on the folder.

 

[BigBoy]

The log file line errors when I testparm

 

[BigBoy]

On my share I have the following:

[storage]
path = /storage
browsable =yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force user = raymond
force group = raymond

The shared folder is /storage (obviously) it's owner is raymond:raymond and permissions are 777.

This requires that I enter the credentials for raymond the first time I access the share from Windows but everything just works after that.

Thanks will try similar conf later off to work now.

 

[BigBoy]

Ok so I removed samba and reinstalled via apt-get and built a new conf using the advice here and it works straight away! dunno what was going on before tbh, just need a cron now to activate samba every time it boots.