Linux-Captain-Logs

Linux Captain Logs

05/09/2017

Tasks:

• Installing a mail server ontop of Debian 9
• Installing a NAS (Samba+NFS) solution ontop of Debian 9
• Adding to the current public Ubuntu 16.04 NAS(Samba+NFS) a local mail server
• Upgrading the current public Ubuntu 16.04 NAS
• Finding out why the default Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9 Samba service doesn't broadcast or being seen by it's netbios name at the windows "network".

Issues:

• While installing the mail server ontop of the Ubuntu 16.04 NAS(using tasksel) it apears that the mail syslog entries was not redirected into /var/log/mail.* files. To resolve this issue I had too investigate the rsyslogd settings. Then I tried to understand what is the issue using some googling foo and.. the conclusion was that it's probably permissions or something related to rsyslogd. Resolution: The solution was to create the files /var/log/mail.log and /var/log/mail.err and change their ownership. The right ownership for these files is "syslog:adm" ie:

  touch /var/log/mail.log
  touch /var/log/mail.err
  chown syslog:adm /var/log/mail.*
  

• While researching why Samba will not publish it's netbios name and will now show up in the windows "network" browser I found out that samba by default doesn't take the role of a "master" in the workgroup/domain. To resolve the issue you need to make the service at-least a "local master" by adding to the smbd.conf [global] section the next lines:

  domain master = no
  local master = yes
  preferred master = yes
  

  Thanks for the arch linux samba docs