Build Your Own Atom-based NAS

[ponq]

Hi, I hope anyone can help me out here, it is driving me crazy. I get permission denied all the time when trying to write something to the nas-share.

I followed the guide and got it all up and running (Ubuntu server 9.04, Webmin, with a RAID 5 config).

I got one share, named NAS.
path /mnt/raidarr

all the permissions etc are set as described in the article.

I can see and view the share on my LAN (another two ubuntu machines, Linux Mint 6 and 7).

However, I cannot copy anything to the share, cannot create a dir from one of the machines (with webmin no prob ofcourse). All the time I get "permission denied".

I have no clue. Any with some tips? Much appreciated!

 

[roamer]

please login into your nas and provide output of the commands:

ls -la /mnt/
cat /etc/samba/smb.conf

 

[ponq]

Thanks for your reply!


ls -la /mnt/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-20 14:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2009-05-12 19:25 ..

And,

cat /etc/samba/smb.conf



#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = WORKGROUP

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
# wins support = no

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
; wins server = w.x.y.z

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
dns proxy = no

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

#### Networking ####

# The specific set of interfaces / networks to bind to
# This can be either the interface name or an IP address/netmask;
# interface names are normally preferred
; interfaces = 127.0.0.0/8 eth0

# Only bind to the named interfaces and/or networks; you must use the
# 'interfaces' option above to use this.
# It is recommended that you enable this feature if your Samba machine is
# not protected by a firewall or is a firewall itself. However, this
# option cannot handle dynamic or non-broadcast interfaces correctly.
; bind interfaces only = yes



#### Debugging/Accounting ####

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

# Cap the size of the individual log files (in KiB).
max log size = 1000

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.
# syslog only = no

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
syslog = 0

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d


####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
# security = user

# You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on
# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
encrypt passwords = true

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
# password database type you are using.
passdb backend = tdbsam

obey pam restrictions = yes

# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
# passdb is changed.
unix password sync = yes

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<[email protected]> for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.
pam password change = yes

# This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
# to anonymous connections
map to guest = bad user

 

[ponq]

and part 2 of smb.conf



########## Domains ###########

# Is this machine able to authenticate users. Both PDC and BDC
# must have this setting enabled. If you are the BDC you must
# change the 'domain master' setting to no
#
; domain logons = yes
#
# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the location of the user's profile directory
# from the client point of view)
# The following required a [profiles] share to be setup on the
# samba server (see below)
; logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
# Another common choice is storing the profile in the user's home directory
# (this is Samba's default)
# logon path = \\%N\%U\profile

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the location of a user's home directory (from the client
# point of view)
; logon drive = H:
# logon home = \\%N\%U

# The following setting only takes effect if 'domain logons' is set
# It specifies the script to run during logon. The script must be stored
# in the [netlogon] share
# NOTE: Must be store in 'DOS' file format convention
; logon script = logon.cmd

# This allows Unix users to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
# RPC pipe. The example command creates a user account with a disabled Unix
# password; please adapt to your needs
; add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u

########## Printing ##########

# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
# load printers = yes

# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file
; printing = bsd
; printcap name = /etc/printcap

# CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
# cupsys-client package.
; printing = cups
; printcap name = cups

############ Misc ############

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting
; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/speed.html
# for details
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
# socket options = TCP_NODELAY

# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
# domain master = auto

# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges
# for something else.)
; idmap uid = 10000-20000
; idmap gid = 10000-20000
; template shell = /bin/bash

# The following was the default behaviour in sarge,
# but samba upstream reverted the default because it might induce
# performance issues in large organizations.
# See Debian bug #368251 for some of the consequences of *not*
# having this setting and smb.conf(5) for details.
; winbind enum groups = yes
; winbind enum users = yes

# Setup usershare options to enable non-root users to share folders
# with the net usershare command.

# Maximum number of usershare. 0 (default) means that usershare is disabled.
; usershare max shares = 100

# Allow users who've been granted usershare privileges to create
# public shares, not just authenticated ones
usershare allow guests = yes

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

# Un-comment the following (and tweak the other settings below to suit)
# to enable the default home directory shares. This will share each
# user's home directory as \\server\username
;[homes]
; comment = Home Directories
; browseable = no

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change the
# next parameter to 'no' if you want to be able to write to them.
; read only = yes

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
; directory mask = 0700

# By default, \\server\username shares can be connected to by anyone
# with access to the samba server. Un-comment the following parameter
# to make sure that only "username" can connect to \\server\username
# This might need tweaking when using external authentication schemes
; valid users = %S

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
;[netlogon]
; comment = Network Logon Service
; path = /home/samba/netlogon
; guest ok = yes
; read only = yes
; share modes = no

# Un-comment the following and create the profiles directory to store
# users profiles (see the "logon path" option above)
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
# The path below should be writable by all users so that their
# profile directory may be created the first time they log on
;[profiles]
; comment = Users profiles
; path = /home/samba/profiles
; guest ok = no
; browseable = no
; create mask = 0600
; directory mask = 0700

[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are
# members of.
; write list = root, @ntadmin

# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
; read only = yes
; locking = no
; path = /cdrom
; guest ok = yes

# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
# cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
# an entry like this:
#
# /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
# is mounted on /cdrom
#
; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom

 

[roamer]

Thanks for your reply!


ls -la /mnt/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-10-20 14:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2009-05-12 19:25 ..

Where are the mentioned directory "path /mnt/raidarr" ?

And,

cat /etc/samba/smb.conf

...

Where are the share named "NAS" ?

 

[ponq]

Yeah, that surprises me as well. Could be something went wrong when executing the commands (I asked my wife to do them, b/c I was at work).

Here's the (correct?) output:

ls -la /mnt/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-27 01:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2009-05-27 06:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-27 01:00 raidarr


And the smb.conf section regarding the NAS:

[NAS]
comment = Onze NAS
writeable = yes
guest only = yes
public = yes
path = /mnt/raidarr
available = yes


Any better?

 

[roamer]

Yeah, that surprises me as well. Could be something went wrong when executing the commands (I asked my wife to do them, b/c I was at work).

Here's the (correct?) output:

ls -la /mnt/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-27 01:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2009-05-27 06:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-05-27 01:00 raidarr


And the smb.conf section regarding the NAS:

[NAS]
comment = Onze NAS
writeable = yes
guest only = yes
public = yes
path = /mnt/raidarr
available = yes


Any better?

login into your nas and execute the following command:

sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/raidarr


currently only root has write permission to /mnt/raidarr.

 

[ponq]

thanks buddy! That did the trick!

 

[noseph]

Thank you Tim. I just built a MSI Wind Nettop 100 with Ubuntu Server 9.04 following these excellent instructions. I installed the OS to a 4Gb CF (without a swap file) and have RAID 1 across 2 1Tb WD Green drives. This will be replacing a couple of aging NSLU2 units. Again thank you.

 

[thiggins]

Thank you Tim. I just built a MSI Wind Nettop 100 with Ubuntu Server 9.04 following these excellent instructions....

Glad to help.

 

[ScottW]

Had been thinking about a synology or QNAP but looking at an ATOM self build looks to be a cost effective option.

The MSI Wind sounds like a good option rather than buying board/case seperate. My trouble is finding it in the UK.

Has anyone been able to get hold of one in the UK - importing from the US would be OK except trying to find someone who will ship and also not charge as much as the Wind itself appears to be next to impossible...

Scott

 

[Osamede]

Had been thinking about a synology or QNAP but looking at an ATOM self build looks to be a cost effective option.

The MSI Wind sounds like a good option rather than buying board/case seperate. My trouble is finding it in the UK.

Has anyone been able to get hold of one in the UK - importing from the US would be OK except trying to find someone who will ship and also not charge as much as the Wind itself appears to be next to impossible...

Scott

Have a look at the BBS2 model here (http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/) its pretty competitive with price of a self-build. I just got one myself.

And if you only need one drive, then their T7 barebones model is even cheaper and totally silent. You cant build anything like that yourself for less than 2x or 3x their price.

 

[Unregistered]

Wind PC using CF - how is the performance

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a windpic on a single 1tb wd hard disk.
I also installed XMBC and am able to view videos on my large screen tv.
I am not getting the NAS performance quoted at this site but still pretty good.

Q. I was wondering how well it works when installed on a CF card. Is the performance
comparable to HD install assuming that the swap is still on the HD.
Further, with periodic access-time updates do the CF cards last?

 

[benogil]

A couple of pages back there was a question of whether Windows Home Server would work on an Atom, the answer is yes. Unluckily, the reports of using this as a media streamer have been negative, the demigrator issue seems to cause difficulties ( stuttering ).

Ben