[PROBLEM] Direct Access to Pi

[DonEdu]

I had the same problem. It worked fine on a Rasberry with XBian 1.0 RC3 but when I updated to a new version of XBian no Samba shares were visible in Windows. On my Android phone however, I could see these shares but the name of the workgroup was not visible (used Fing, great app). I have very little knowledge of Linux but with some help of a friend I found out that nmbd service wasn’t running. This is the log file: /var/log/samba/log.nmbd (you have to login (Putty) with root to view the directory).

So I start searching on ‘Samba’ and ‘nmbd’ between the old and the new version and find out that the file /etc/init.d/samba was missing. With this file you can restart Samba. This file contains the command to start the nmbd service:

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/nmbd -- -D

What I finally did to solve the problem is copying the file /etc/init.d/samba from the old XBian version to a directory named /etc/rc2.d and renamed the file to s01samba. I don’t know how it works but this file is executed at start-up I also copied the file to /etc/init.d

I don’t know if this is a good solution but it worked fine on my new Rasberry Pi 2 with XBian_2015.02.07_rpi2 installed. Hope this is helpful to you.