Struggling to locate File Share on NS8

[bwdjames (James Nesbitt)]

NethServer Version: NS8
Module: File Server

This is the first time I am working with NS8 and I think I may be missing something stupidly obvious, so please do excuse me for potentially asking ID 10 T questions.

I am trying to setup the File Shares.

I have installed and configured the Samba Active Directory as per the documentation located at User domains — NS8 documentation

Now I am attempting to follow the File Server Instructions located at File server — NS8 documentation and it tells me to “Open Samba application from the app drawer”.

The problem is that I cannot find the Samba Application and I am not even sure where the App Drawer is. It might be my lack of understanding of the terminology.

Is someone able to point me in the right direction?

[LayLow]

@bwdjames

someone

Likely @Andy_Wismer would be able to help.

[Andy_Wismer (André Wismer)]

Hi @bwdjames

Sorry I don’t have an english browser available, but once you know where to click…

The “App drawer”, as it’s known, is here:

Top right, nine dots:

Clicking on Samba* should get you this:

The samba screen is also available from the Domains & Users entry on the left.

Hope this helps!

My 2 cents
Andy

[bwdjames (James Nesbitt)]

Hi @Andy_Wismer ,

Thanks for the prompt response and not to worry about the English language.

Thanks for clarifying where the App Drawer is.

Now either I have setup the Internal Samba Active Directory incorrectly or something has gone wrong as I don’t see Samba in the list anyware. I’ve even deleted and recreated it to no avail.

[Andy_Wismer (André Wismer)]

Hi James

Happened to me too, on my Home Server I set up 3 weeks ago. No Migration, fresh install. The process is often reffered to as “sh*t happens!”.

I actually wiped and reinstalled the whole cabodle - for the reasons I was documenting the process and I wanted a 100% clean install and docu!

As everything was on Proxmox as a VM, this was quite fast.

The docu is here, btw.:

A Debian 12 based new Install of NS8, running on a low powered Proxmox 8.22 (Odroid H3+)

Thanks for the explanantion the script didn’t run because i had ths error bash install.sh ghcr.io/nethserver/core:latest ghcr.io/nethserver /traefik:setting-backoff-on-init Checking port 80 and 443 are not already in use Installation failed: port 80 is already in use. After stopping apache service the script runs and i could acces NS

My 2 cents
Andy

[bwdjames (James Nesbitt)]

I can relate to the “shi*t happens!” and I’m kinda glad that I’m not alone with this one.

Thanks for the help so far and I’ll wipe everything and try again in the next couple of days

[Andy_Wismer (André Wismer)]

@bwdjames

Good luck and a lot of fun!

My 2 cents
Andy

My latest migration:

Node1: 1.5 TB, 16 GB RAM, 8 CPU cores
Node2: 300 GB 8 GB RAM, 8 CPU cores

Both operational since this week, replacing a NS7 with 1.4 TB VM.

[bwdjames (James Nesbitt)]

So the final outcome was that I missed two things.
(1) I didn’'t have a Reverse PTR record for the DC DNS record
(2) The IP Address range for the VPN was clashing with the primary network range

Thanks for the help @Andy_Wismer