Raspberry 3, Openhabian, remote access to config from windows

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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I hope somebody can help me out here…

I’m definetely not a Linux expert, since I normally uses Windows. I would like to maintain my items-, sitemap- etc files from at windows machine, and I discovered that Samba shares are pre-installed on the Raspberry 3 / Openhabian combo.

Perfect - ready to go… NOT!

They are READ/ONLY (the shares) so I can see all files, but not save anything?!?!?
What EXACTLY should I do. I’m currently logging in to the pre-installed openHAB-conf share as openhabian:openhabian and I can see and read all files - but all save operations fail.

HELP HELP! Please write a STEP-BY-STEP guide to solve this…

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

2

It sounds like you are trying to access these files with the wrong user. When you try to access your samba share, windows should ask you for a username and password. Use the same you use to access your raspberry and try it that way. I don’t use openhabian, so if this does not work, maybe read the instructions again if it requires a different user and password.
I stumbled across the same issue once in a while…my problem was always related to using the wrong user.
Sorry, I am not on windows, that’s as much details i can give you.
Hope that helps

3

Thanks lipp, but the problem was not related to wrong user, but “strange” sharings setup by the Openhabian image.

Everything works now - and here is exactly what I did to fix it:

  1. Putty into the raspberry
  2. (Optional) Make a copy of the smb.conf file by running: sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak
  3. Edit the samba configuration by running: sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
  4. Navigate all the way to the end of the file (you should see a lot of sections with ; as the first char in the lines - these sections are commented out.
  5. Delete ALL the sections after the ========== Custom Share Definitions =========== line
  6. Insert the following two shares:

#=================== Custom Share Definitions ====================
[openHAB2-userdata]
comment=openHAB2 userdata
path=/var/lib/openhab2
browseable=Yes
writeable=Yes
only guest=no
public=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777

[openHAB2-conf]
comment=openHAB2 site configuration
path=/etc/openhab2
browseable=Yes
writeable=Yes
only guest=no
public=no
create mask=0777
directory mask=0777

  1. Press ctrl+x to exit the editor (remember to save smb.conf).
  2. Restart the samba servce by running: sudo systemctl restart smbd.service
    8B) Optionally, reboot the Raspberry by running: sudo reboot

— on the windows PC —

  1. In the explorer enter \<ip-address-of-raspberry\ and press enter
  2. You should see the list of shares
  3. Right-click the “OpenHAB2-conf” share and select “Map Network Drive”. (This is important)
  4. In the dialog select a drive (e.g. Z:) and check “Connect using different credentials”
  5. Enter the credentials as (username:password) openhabian:openhabian
  6. Finish the drive mapping and in drive Z: you should now see one folder with items, sitemaps, things… etc.

It is important NOT to use the \ directly since that will not work (wrong user and no write access).

Thomas

4

Hi,

I’m very new in the topic of openHAB and I have the same problem. No write access in the config share.

I tried the solution of Thomas, but with no positive result. Has somone a solution?

Thanks in advance,
Joachim