Any LINUX Experts out there? Samba and WinBind Errors

[DD Custom Mods]

So I've been trying to get a webserver set up and also need to get Samba share to be working. Below is what happens when I try to install any software that touches those two packages. Any ideas other than a clean install to fix this?

 

[g el]

Hey,

could you post a bigger screen shot or a copy of the terminal output?

Also helpful would be your distro information

Is this a local server, or is it hosted online?

The output of systemctl status <service> might also be helpful here

How are you trying to install the software? Did you consider containers for this  (Docker)?

[Ausfernando]

I dont know but LinuxTechTips could help you (Pun right there)

[Orangeator]

I cannot read the text... Need a larger screen shot.

[DD Custom Mods]

26 minutes ago, g el said:

Hey,

could you post a bigger screen shot or a copy of the terminal output?

Also helpful would be your distro information

Is this a local server, or is it hosted online?

The output of systemctl status <service> might also be helpful here

How are you trying to install the software? Did you consider containers for this  (Docker)?

This is a local server that's run out of my basement on my main rig hand me downs.  I run two 24/7 Minecraft servers, for me and the kids, and PLEX server which streams to multiple devices.

 

I will get the output of the systemctl status also.  I have been installing using basic apt-get commands.  I do run off a GUI now but still do most by command line.

 

Server Specs:

CPU: 3.0Ghz Phenom II X4 945

Motherboard:  Asus M5A88-V EVO 

RAM: ADATA 6GB 

Hard Drives: 4x1TB in RAID 6, 320GB for OS

Cooling: Xigmatek Loki

NIC: Intel based dual NIC

 

 

18 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

I cannot read the text... Need a larger screen shot.

 

I will get a bigger screen shot or just copy the terminal output tonight if I can get away.

[g el]

Some more questions while you're checking it 

Do you need winbind? Do you have an active directory / domain and you want everone to use their same password to access the shares?

Can you paste the output of uname -a ? This will give the distrubution you are running as well as the kernel, from the apt-get command you mentioned we know it's a debian based, so probably ubuntu? What version of ubuntu is it? is it updated?

[DD Custom Mods]

7 minutes ago, g el said:

Some more questions while you're checking it 

Do you need winbind? Do you have an active directory / domain and you want everone to use their same password to access the shares?

Can you paste the output of uname -a ? This will give the distrubution you are running as well as the kernel, from the apt-get command you mentioned we know it's a debian based, so probably ubuntu? What version of ubuntu is it? is it updated?

Sorry I forgot to add that, yes it's Ubuntu and running gnome GUI.  It's updated to the last stable release 16.04.  I am making a list of outputs to post tonight.

Winbind is being used in conjecture with Samba through my Webmin admin portal.  All the tech in the house runs off windows, except for a tablet.

[StarPunk]

The settings you need to set do depent completely on your network enviroment.

 

Using an Active Directory (What you could set up with Samba4, which is a totally other story), you mainly need to join your server to the domain, add the share and é voílá, you have a samba file server AND you have all your users controlled from one point for every computer in the network (I think webmin can help you a lot on your way there - even if this is a fun way to go to learn a big shit load about modern server enviroments)

 

For everything else, it would be the best to see your config files, log outputs ,and command outputs:

 

cat /etc/samba/smb.conf > /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.conf ends_______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.log begins______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
cat /var/log/samba.log >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.log ends_______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.status begins______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
service smbd status &1>> /tmp/forumoutput.txt

best way for analysing would be to attach /tmp/forumoutput.txt to your answer (you may need to change your logpath, i'm not sure if it is that easy on ubuntu)

 

[DD Custom Mods]

7 minutes ago, StarPunk said:

The settings you need to set do depent completely on your network enviroment.

 

Using an Active Directory (What you could set up with Samba4, which is a totally other story), you mainly need to join your server to the domain, add the share and é voílá, you have a samba file server AND you have all your users controlled from one point for every computer in the network (I think webmin can help you a lot on your way there - even if this is a fun way to go to learn a big shit load about modern server enviroments)

 

For everything else, it would be the best to see your config files, log outputs ,and command outputs:

 

cat /etc/samba/smb.conf > /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.conf ends_______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.log begins______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
cat /var/log/samba.log >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.log ends_______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
echo "________smb.status begins______" >> /tmp/forumoutput.txt
service smbd status &1>> /tmp/forumoutput.txt

best way for analysing would be to attach /tmp/forumoutput.txt to your answer (you may need to change your logpath, i'm not sure if it is that easy on ubuntu)

 

Having an active directory controlled network is what I hope to get to.  If we find it's easier to go that route now during this troubleshooting process.  I have no problems with that.  Webmin has a great interface for controlling samba and permissions.  I found it useful so far.  I can already tell you my Samba service is down and won't come back up.  I encountered a lot of issues when I upgraded to 16.04 from what I was previous at 12.04.  To include a pain in the butt install of webmin as it's no longer technically supported.

 

I will get the output of those config files tonight

[unijab]

I would just setup kerberos authentication and create the user from AD that you are using to access the SMB file share on the linux box.

 

 

[DD Custom Mods]

Here's the requested outputs, I hope it helps...

 

Uname -a output

root@CIASERV:/home/agent007# uname -a
Linux CIASERV 4.8.0-37-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 26 02:27:07 UTC 2017 x86_6                   4 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[1]+  Stopped                 service smbd status

 

Error output:

Setting up winbind (2:4.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu5.2) ...
Job for winbind.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status winbind.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript winbind, action "start" failed.
â winbind.service - Samba Winbind Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/winbind.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-03-10 13:54:14 EST; 8ms ago
     Docs: man:winbindd(8)
           man:samba(7)
           man:smb.conf(5)
  Process: 13514 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/winbindd $WINBINDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 13514 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 
Mar 10 13:54:14 CIASERV systemd[1]: Starting Samba Winbind Daemon...
Mar 10 13:54:14 CIASERV systemd[1]: winbind.service: Main process exited, code=exited, statu...LURE
Mar 10 13:54:14 CIASERV systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba Winbind Daemon.
Mar 10 13:54:14 CIASERV systemd[1]: winbind.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 10 13:54:14 CIASERV systemd[1]: winbind.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package winbind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up samba (2:4.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu5.2) ...
Failed to preset unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service is masked.
/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on samba-ad-dc.service: No such file or directory
Job for smbd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status smbd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "start" failed.
â smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-03-10 13:54:16 EST; 9ms ago
     Docs: man:smbd(8)
           man:samba(7)
           man:smb.conf(5)
  Process: 13620 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 13620 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 
Mar 10 13:54:15 CIASERV systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Mar 10 13:54:16 CIASERV systemd[1]: smbd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1...LURE
Mar 10 13:54:16 CIASERV systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
Mar 10 13:54:16 CIASERV systemd[1]: smbd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 10 13:54:16 CIASERV systemd[1]: smbd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package samba (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-3ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 winbind
 samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Config file:

#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which 
# are not shown in this example
#
# Some options that are often worth tuning have been included as
# commented-out examples in this file.
#  - When such options are commented with ";", the proposed setting
#    differs from the default Samba behaviour
#  - When commented with "#", the proposed setting is the default
#    behaviour of Samba but the option is considered important
#    enough to be mentioned here
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
# "testparm" to check that you have not made any basic syntactic 
# errors. 

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

[global]
	passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
	obey pam restrictions = yes
	dns proxy = no
	default = DATA
	unix password sync = yes
	max log size = 1000
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	winbind trusted domains only = no
	server string = Home Server (Samba, PLEX, SSH, Minecraft)
	panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
	os level = 20
	passdb backend = tdbsam
	security = share
	usershare allow guests = yes
	writeable = yes
	public = yes
	winbind use default domain = yes
	guest account = agent007
	map to guest = bad user
	pam password change = yes
	workgroup = WORKGROUP
	syslog = 0
	encrypt passwords = yes
	netbios name = CIASERV
	server role = standalone server

## Browsing/Identification ###

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

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
   wins support = yes

# 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.

#### 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

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

# 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.

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace


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

# Server role. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible
# values are "standalone server", "member server", "classic primary
# domain controller", "classic backup domain controller", "active
# directory domain controller". 
#
# Most people will want "standalone sever" or "member server".
# Running as "active directory domain controller" will require first
# running "samba-tool domain provision" to wipe databases and create a
# new domain.

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


# 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.

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
# parameters must be set (thanks to Ian Kahan <<kahan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Sarge).

# 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'.

# This option controls how unsuccessful authentication attempts are mapped
# to anonymous connections

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

#
# The following settings only takes effect if 'server role = primary
# classic domain controller', 'server role = backup domain controller'
# or '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

# This allows machine accounts to be created on the domain controller via the 
# SAMR RPC pipe.  
# The following assumes a "machines" group exists on the system
; add machine script  = /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c "%u machine account" -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u

# This allows Unix groups to be created on the domain controller via the SAMR
# RPC pipe.  
; add group script = /usr/sbin/addgroup --force-badname %g

############ 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

# 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

# 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

#======================= 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

# 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





________smb.conf ends_______
________smb.log begins______
________smb.log ends_______
________smb.status begins______

[StarPunk]

This looks like your Samba Installation is corrupt.

Quote

dpkg: error processing package samba (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

As far as I see, your Samba Config is ok.

 

I am not a DPKG-Expert, but I would try something like

 

dpkg-reconfigure samba

[samiscool51]

Linux experts i know....

(thinks for some time)

ask @leadeater i think he works with samba often (do you?)

anyways, i don't work with linux a lot (many work servers run windows, we have 1-3 virtual systems running linux for some things), but i do know one thing, that this post is useless except for one thing, brighten up peoples day because

[DD Custom Mods]

On 3/12/2017 at 9:33 AM, StarPunk said:

This looks like your Samba Installation is corrupt.

As far as I see, your Samba Config is ok.

 

I am not a DPKG-Expert, but I would try something like

 

dpkg-reconfigure samba

You are right about a broken install.... here's the output of running that command

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: samba is broken or not fully installed

19 hours ago, samiscool51 said:

Linux experts i know....

(thinks for some time)

ask @leadeater i think he works with samba often (do you?)

anyways, i don't work with linux a lot (many work servers run windows, we have 1-3 virtual systems running linux for some things), but i do know one thing, that this post is useless except for one thing, brighten up peoples day because

Thank you, I will send him a message.  Before I ran into an update that broke almost everything, I had initially configured it to serve my network and then didn't touch it other then to add my newest RAID array.

[leadeater]

Sorry but it's been ages since I've dealt with Linux/Samba. I'm more of a Windows guy now. Best I can suggest doing is backing up your samba config and removing it, forcibly if you have to, then reinstall.

[DD Custom Mods]

21 hours ago, leadeater said:

Sorry but it's been ages since I've dealt with Linux/Samba. I'm more of a Windows guy now. Best I can suggest doing is backing up your samba config and removing it, forcibly if you have to, then reinstall.

I definitely like your forcible idea, know any posts on how to do it forcibly?

[Eniqmatic]

Using apt you can do a --remove command to uninstall, if it is still not working, make use of the "-f" and "purge" flags to assist you.

[DD Custom Mods]

On 3/15/2017 at 5:13 AM, Eniqmatic said:

Using apt you can do a --remove command to uninstall, if it is still not working, make use of the "-f" and "purge" flags to assist you.

Thank you, I will try this after I get off work today.  I'd love to get this fixed so I can continue getting my web server set up while the wife is out of state tomorrow.