No samba after fresh install

General system Newbie
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After fresh install and following this guide, I seem not te be able to get samba to work.

[eljejer@spectre ~]$ sudo systemctl start samba smb nmb
[sudo] password for eljejer:
Job for nmb.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status nmb.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
Job for smb.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status smb.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
Job for samba.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status samba.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
[eljejer@spectre ~]$

The fore mentioned details are not very enlighting to me either :slight_smile:
Please help. Thanks

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Here’s my smb.conf

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Is this bug affecting my problem?

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samba version 4.11.3 is broken with python 3.8. so it may is the issue …

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Now I downgraded from 4.11.3 to 4.11.2 (samba, libwbclient, smbclient and ldb) and still not starting
Further advise is much appreciated

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run
testparm
to check for syntactic errors

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Got errors out of testparm (maybe gone wrong copy- and pasting).
Written new smb.conf file and now testparm result is ok
Still same (?) error starting the service

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Also, I must have missed a step in the guide (under Xfce): yay -S system-config-samba.
Executing this now gives an error in building pygtk package: ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

pango.c: In function ‘_wrap_PangoFont__do_find_shaper’:
pango.c:3822:32: error: ‘PangoFontClass’ {aka ‘struct _PangoFontClass’} has no member named ‘find_shaper’
3822 | if (PANGO_FONT_CLASS(klass)->find_shaper)
| ^~
pango.c:3823:38: error: ‘PangoFontClass’ {aka ‘struct _PangoFontClass’} has no member named ‘find_shaper’
3823 | ret = PANGO_FONT_CLASS(klass)->find_shaper(PANGO_FONT(self->obj), lang, ch);
|
…

make: *** [Makefile:630: pango_la-pango.lo] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().

Edit: it seems pygtk is not maintained any more. Do I have to install system-config-samba as per the instructions?

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Samba 4.12.0 is out on testing. Some old hardware will need you to activate smb v1 protocol.

See this message on arch-general mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2020-March/047604.html

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no this is only to have a tool for managing it, but it is also not that easy to use…
I do not use samba anymore i switch to nfs, more easy to configure and working nicely…

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Hi,
Turns out I do not need samba afterall :slight_smile: I just presumed I needed it to see network drives in Thunar, but it turns out Thunar accesses samba network drives without explicitly installing samba on the laptop.
Thanks anyway.

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Hi Hi… i was thinking about asking you what for you want to create a samba server at all, but i was presuming that you know what you need.

And yea if you only want to use a samba server as a client you do not need to set all this up…

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I always wonder why people still use samba instead of of using ssh.
What SMB protocol do you use?
SMB 1 was deactivated per default in samba version 4.11. SMB 2 ist used.
The following link is also important, if you do a version downgrade.

samba release notes

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Yes, I have been wanting to setup NFS on my file server (also arch linux) again. I remember that, when I was still on a Windows client, client/server filehandling was much smoother using NFS than it was with SMB. Do you know if Thunar supports this as well or can you recommend another file manager for this?

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Thanks for your input. I can refrain from installing samba after all because Thunar supports it natively it turned out

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Hello… :vulcan_salute:
I had the same issue and Samba would see the network but could not connect to anything… I tried the “downgrade” in this thread and it did not work for me. I found this article ( Top Dog - YouTube ) and it worked for me. I applied this to all of my “smb.conf” without downgrading and everything works again.
I add this to my “smb.conf” and the network started to work as before…

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add

client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1

to the global section to restore workgroups and SMB1
-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

I hope this helps someone else that is having issues with there Samba Network… :alien:
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It is a dead-end. In Samba 4.12+, SMBv1 support will be removed slowly.

Too bad some hardware cannot be upgraded to SMBv2.

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2020-April/229108.html

This isn't a good idea really and is only a stop gap, Samba is working 
to remove SMBv1 entirely.

So… :frowning:

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@FredBezies thanks! The whole thing just sucks, if it’s working leave it alone!
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