Samba on Pogoplug Pro w/ Debian

Hello again,

I'm looking for a good tutorial on how to setup samba for Debian installed on a Pogoplug Pro. I installed Debian using the instructions on howtoforge:

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-debian-squeeze-on-pogoplug-v3-oxnas-cleanly

I'm not really sure if this is Debian Squeeze or not. If you can clarify that point, I'd appreciate it.

Is there a samba install and setup tutorial out there that would work for Debian on Pogoplugs? Ideally, I would like to make automount mount every new drive under /media folder, and make samba share everything under the /media folder. I'm coming from ArchLinuxArm environment, and that's the basic setup there.

Thanks,
Eric

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/samba.htm

I tried installing Samba like this:

root@PogoDebian:/# apt-get install samba samba-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'smbclient' instead of 'samba-client'
Segmentation fault

I thought maybe I should use smbclient instead - so I did this, but still got seg fault.

root@PogoDebian:/# apt-get install samba smbclient
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Segmentation fault

Maybe I have the wrong repository? The only other program I tried to install was Motion, but that worked.

Do you have a sort of swap partition defined?
What does the command "swapon -s" say?
If not, you are probably running out of RAM. Either that, or maybe your rootfs is corrupted.

I don't think I have any swap partitions defined. I intended to run this on a flash drive. When I run the swapon command, I get this output:

Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority

I get the segfault error even when nothing else is running. By nothing, I mean other than the standard set of processes that are started using the "clean debian install" instructions. I don't have any user installed apps running when I try to install Samba. When I do "top", I only see the occasional process consume decimal percents of the memory.

Is there anything else I should check?

Your problem isn't with samba, but with either apt-get or the samba package itself. One is broken. Can you "apt-get install" other packages? Do the /var/log/* files show anything interesting? Have you fscked the root (and var, if separate) file systems recently? I'm not a Debian apt-get expert, so I don't know what to suggest to clean a corrupted apt-get database.

FWIW, I run samba on my Pogoplugs. I started with squeeze and upgraded to wheezy, and I've long since forgotten how I installed samba originally. Here's what I have loaded:

$ dpkg -l | grep samba
ii  samba                                 2:3.6.6-6                    armel        SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
ii  samba-common                          2:3.6.6-6                    all          common files used by both the Samba server and client
ii  samba-common-bin                      2:3.6.6-6                    armel        common files used by both the Samba server and client
$

Good luck!

Hmm, I might be wrong, but segfaults don't sound like a apt-get database problem to me. With a database problem shouldn't you just get some error message, telling you that the operation can't be done correctly, or that a dependency can't be satisfied, or something of the likes?
Segfaults sound more like a hardware problem, or running out of RAM. But that's just my 2 cents. And you should never underestimate how much RAM apt can consume, when building dependencies etc..
No harm in trying everything possible, if it's already broken, though.

I think it's likely running out of RAM. When you run Debian on the Pro, a big junk of memory is taken already. It's best to have swap on USB, even though you don't intent to use it in normal operation. Use a swapfile so it can be turned on/off easily in rc.local.

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Installing samba on Debian is not that hard. I followed the tutorial on howtoforge to get Debian running on my Pogoplug v3. After adding ntp support, I also installed samba via
apt-get update
apt-get install samba

Then I set up my smb.conf (which I mostly copied from my old Samba server) and I was good to go.

However, after checking the logs I noticed some errors in connection with Windows 7 which were not critical at all, but annoying. Anyway, the reason was, that Squeeze usually still uses samba 3.5 which causes these errors in connection with a Windows 7 client. After adding the squeeze-backports repo to my apt sources and upgrading samba to version 3.6 these error messages were gone.

So, in short, if you have Windows 7/8 clients on your network, I would recommend installing samba from the backports repository (see debian wiki), so you get the latest samba 3.6 (at least the latest in the 3.x series; I know there is also samba 4).