Troubleshooting Samba

[mikebk]

I'm having problems connecting to a samba share on my asus rt-ac66r from a Kodak all-in-1 printer as described in http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=10221.

It appears that my next troubleshoting step should be to increase Samba's log level and use the resulting logs to understand the problem. I was able to increase the log level in /etc/smb.conf using the custom configuration files in the Merlin build.

Unfortunately, the log file in /var/log.samba was empty with a modification date at the end of 2010. I've looked around but haven't found the samba log file and confirmed that the syslog log at /tmp/syslog.log isn't getting additional events.

Where should I look for the samba logs? I've set the log level to 3 based on information on samba.org's website. Am I increasing the log level appropriately?

Thanks

Mike

 

[mikebk]

I'm still unable to access the samba share from the printer. I've also been completely unable to produce any additional Samba log messages.

I have used Wireshark to look at messages that are actually sent. Samba is responding with STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME in the response to a "Tree Connect Andx Request" a message.

The only text (in UTF-16!) is the share name so I tried changing the share name with no change in symptoms.

Has anyone seen this error or have an idea as to what it means?

Thanks

Mike

 

[joegreat]

I have used Wireshark to look at messages that are actually sent. Samba is responding with STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME in the response to a "Tree Connect Andx Request" a message.

Hi Mike,

I recall a problem like this. I think it was caused by a directory permission somewhere in the path missing read. Check the directory perms are at leas 755 for the path you share with Samba.

chmod 0755 -R /Your-Samba-Path

With kind regards
Joe