Upgrade Samba on your NAS-4220

This section of the guide explains how to upgrade Samba on the NAS-4220

Please make sure you have installed OPTWARE first
Install Optware – Nas-4220
Return to the NAS-4220 Guide Menu

NOTE This guide uses /mnt/ide2/ as a link to the main drive. This may be different on your NAS. You can the the DF command to view the mounted drives

• Telnet into your NAS using Putty or other client. (The username is root and the password is the same as the web admin login

• Backup your smb.conf with the following command. This can then be backed up off the NAS via FTP or Samba

cp /usr/hddapp/etc/samba/smb.conf /mnt/ide2/public/smb.conf

• Run the folllowing command to install Samba. It may install other packages automatically.

ipkg upgrade samba

• Delete the old smb.conf

cd /usr/hddapp/etc/samba

rm smb.conf

• Stop all old Samba processes

killall smbd

killall nmbd

• Finally run the Samba daemon

smbd -D

• You can check to see if the Samba daemon is running with the command

top

• You can also check the Samba version with the command

samba -V

You will now be running the upgraded version of Samba. You will next need to customise your smb.conf (coming soon)