Sep. 27, 2009
I have written about my Bubba|Two NAS before and I am still very happy with it. It’s not a performance beast but so quiet that it’s not noticeable in our living room which has always been the most important for me. Even though it runs RAID-1 and mirrors the 1TB internal disk to an external eSata disk I wanted to add some additional security by moving some of the most important files off-site. This article will describe some of the challenges and my final solution. The setup can be used on any Debian or Ubuntu based distribution.
Posted by patrik in Howto | 7 Comments
Sep. 11, 2009
I just came across a really strange and *annoying* problem on one of our servers. A while ago I swapped my PC for a Macbook. Up until now I hadn’t noticed that all my files created on our common Samba server could not be modified by others. Once a colleague pointed this out I started investigating the smb.conf file to figure out what was happening.
However, in the configuration file all looked fine and dandy: create mode, directory mode and inherit permissions were all still set. To make really sure I added some of the force options as well. Still, all folders were created with 0755 (drwxr-xr-x) permissions (I had it setup and expected 0750). I thought I was going nuts until I found some other articles outlining the exact same problems and pointing their finger at Mac OS X.
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg657971.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2009-June/148518.html
Apparently the servers incorrect setting of ACLs on the directories was due to the umask value on Mac OS X. Going through the article, I found that the following suggested settings fixed the problem for me.
unix extensions = no
force directory security mode = 0770
Once setting unix extensions to no, I had to disconnect and re-connect to the server in order to access my files and from then all directories were created with the correct permissions.
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Jan. 21, 2009
I recieved my bubba two storage solution from Excito today! I must say that I was both surprised and impressed once I unwrapped and pluged it in to my network. It was both smaller and quiter than I expected!
I also purchased an additional 1TB eSata drive, also from Excito, which looks almost the same as the server. Knowing from their specs that the device did not yet support raid-1 I was nevertheless hoping to get this running with the additional disk I bought. So far I have synced 39.2% of the new raid array I created and things are looking very promising. For anyone intrested, these are the steps I took: