Mounting an external hard drive in the shares

goffy · June 8, 2025, 10:59am

Hello,
I am trying to mount an external hard drive on /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/harddrive. The data on the hard drive is visible in the terminal. Unfortunately, no data is visible under Windows network environment \dc1\harddisk. How can I solve this problem?

Thank you very much

jgjimenezs · June 8, 2025, 2:34pm

Greetings, which version of nethserver are you using?

goffy · June 8, 2025, 3:43pm

Hello,
I am using Nethserver 8.

mrmarkuz · June 8, 2025, 9:11pm

Did you try to restart the samba-dc service?

runagent -m samba1 systemctl --user restart samba-dc

It’s also possible to install the samba app on a new disk, see Disk usage — NS8 documentation

goffy · June 9, 2025, 6:41pm

Hello Markus,

thanks for your help. When I restart Samba, I get the following error message:
Job for samba-dc.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl --user status samba-dc.service” and “journalctl --user -xeu samba-dc.service” for details.

Best regards

mrmarkuz · June 9, 2025, 7:09pm

Let’s check the service status:

runagent -m samba1 systemctl --user status samba-dc.service

Please also check the logs for errors, see System logs — NS8 documentation

Did you try unmount the external hard drive and restart the service?

goffy · June 9, 2025, 7:25pm

Hello,
as soon as the disc is mounted, Samba can no longer be restarted. When I unmount it, the reboot works again.
Greetings

mrmarkuz · June 9, 2025, 7:43pm

Maybe the owner/group on the external hard disk needs to be adapted?
You could create another samba share to compare.

goffy · June 10, 2025, 7:36am

Hello Markus,

I have changed the permissions to ‘Owner Samba1’ group domainuser". The Samba restart works, but can no longer be clicked on the shares - open.
It is probably due to the authorisations. I enclose a picture.

Best regards

mrmarkuz · June 10, 2025, 8:04am

Do you get an error?

Did you try to (re)set the permissions of the share, see File server — NS8 documentation
Be careful as setting the permissions may cause wrong permissions when plugged into another machine.

goffy · June 10, 2025, 8:08am

Hello Markus,
I get the following error message:

<7>podman exec samba-dc samba-reset-acls -g ‘Domain Admins’ -p erw festplatte1
find: ‘festplatte1’: Permission denied
set_nt_acl_conn: init_files_struct failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
ERROR: Could not set acl for festplatte1: (3221225485, ‘An invalid parameter was passed to a service or function.’)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/samba1/.config/actions/reset-share-acls/50reset_share_acls”, line 34, in
phelper.check_returncode()
File “/usr/lib64/python3.11/subprocess.py”, line 502, in check_returncode
raise CalledProcessError(self.returncode, self.args, self.stdout,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘(‘podman’, ‘exec’, ‘samba-dc’, ‘samba-reset-acls’, ‘-g’, ‘Domain Admins’, ‘-p’, ‘erw’, ‘festplatte1’)’ returned non-zero exit status 255.

mrmarkuz · June 10, 2025, 8:33am

You could try to set the permissions recursively on CLI first and then reset the permissions in cluster-admin.

Set owner to samba1:

chown -R samba1:samba1 /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/festplatte1

Set rights for dirs:

find /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/festplatte1 -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

Set rights for files:

find /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/festplatte1 -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

goffy · June 10, 2025, 8:45am

Hello Markus,
I still get the following error message:

<7>podman exec samba-dc samba-reset-acls -g ‘Domain Admins’ -p erw festplatte1
find: ‘festplatte1’: Permission denied
set_nt_acl_conn: init_files_struct failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
ERROR: Could not set acl for festplatte1: (3221225485, ‘An invalid parameter was passed to a service or function.’)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/samba1/.config/actions/reset-share-acls/50reset_share_acls”, line 34, in
phelper.check_returncode()
File “/usr/lib64/python3.11/subprocess.py”, line 502, in check_returncode
raise CalledProcessError(self.returncode, self.args, self.stdout,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘(‘podman’, ‘exec’, ‘samba-dc’, ‘samba-reset-acls’, ‘-g’, ‘Domain Admins’, ‘-p’, ‘erw’, ‘festplatte1’)’ returned non-zero exit status 255.

mrmarkuz · June 10, 2025, 9:03am

Are you using Rocky Linux or another distro?

Check the mount:

root@debianns8test:~# findmnt /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/testfolder
TARGET                                                                       SOURCE    FSTYPE OPTIONS
/home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/testfolder /dev/sdb1 xfs    rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,logbufs=

Check the permissions of dirs:

root@debianns8test:~# ls -lisa /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/testfolder
total 0
      128 0 drwxrwxr-x 3 samba1 427779 32 Jun 10 09:55  .
137406402 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 samba1 samba1 43 Jun 10 09:54  ..
      131 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 samba1 427779  6 Jun 10 09:55 'Unbenannter Ordner'

Check permission of files:

root@debianns8test:~# ls -lisa /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/testfolder/Unbenannter\ Ordner/
total 0
131 0 drwxrwxr-x 2 samba1 427779 26 Jun 10 11:01 .
128 0 drwxrwxr-x 3 samba1 427779 32 Jun 10 09:55 ..
132 0 -rwxrw-r-- 1 samba1 427779  0 Jun 10 11:01 Testdocument

Maybe a hardware error on the disk?

goffy · June 10, 2025, 10:40am

Hello Markus,

here is the result. Use Rocky Linux

[root@nethserver _data]# findmnt /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/festplatte1
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/_data/festplatte1 /dev/sdc1 ext4 rw,relatime,seclabel
[root@nethserver _data]# ls -lisa /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/data/festplatte1
total 56
2 8 drwxrwxr-x+ 4 samba1 samba1 4096 Apr 24 2024 .
537153702 0 drwxr-xr-x. 4 samba1 samba1 43 Jun 10 09:33 …
12 16 -rw-rw-r–+ 1 samba1 samba1 8196 Jan 21 2024 .DS_Store
13 8 -rw-rw-r–+ 1 samba1 samba1 4096 Jan 19 2024 ..DS_Store
36175873 8 drwxrwxr-x+ 16 samba1 samba1 4096 Jan 27 2024 Programme
11 16 drwxrwxr-x. 2 samba1 samba1 16384 Oct 3 2021 lost+found
[root@nethserver _data]# ls -lisa /home/samba1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/shares/data/festplatte1
total 56
2 8 drwxrwxr-x+ 4 samba1 samba1 4096 Apr 24 2024 .
537153702 0 drwxr-xr-x. 4 samba1 samba1 43 Jun 10 09:33 …
12 16 -rw-rw-r–+ 1 samba1 samba1 8196 Jan 21 2024 .DS_Store
13 8 -rw-rw-r–+ 1 samba1 samba1 4096 Jan 19 2024 ..DS_Store
36175873 8 drwxrwxr-x+ 16 samba1 samba1 4096 Jan 27 2024 Programme
11 16 drwxrwxr-x. 2 samba1 samba1 16384 Oct 3 2021 lost+found

mrmarkuz · June 10, 2025, 1:49pm

I could reproduce the issue on Rocky, it seems selinux doesn’t allow it.

EDIT:

It works with disabled selinux but disabling security features isn’t recommended.

goffy · June 10, 2025, 4:23pm

Hello Markus,

thanks for your feedback. Would this be possible with Centos Stream, Almalinux or Debian? Which one could you recommend?

mrmarkuz · June 10, 2025, 4:40pm

Debian uses apparmor instead of selinux so it should work but it’s not a perfect solution.

goffy · June 10, 2025, 4:55pm

Hello Markus,

is there any other way to mount the hard drives so that you could access them from windows?

mrmarkuz · June 11, 2025, 7:10am

You could try to replace the volume and mount the external disk instead: NS8 Add storage path setting like in minio to other apps - #10 by davidep

Here is a thread about the options: Nethserver 8 & samba shares location - #2 by davidep