Notes
Scheduled reboots of Intel NAS units is used as a temporary workaround for issues we've seen with Samba on the units failing to release connections and causing the unit to become unavailable as an SMB target. This issue has been observed on units running OS Version 1.1.11.32736. The issue will hopefully be fixed in later versions of OS.
Pre-Requisite Steps
- You need to have SSH access enabled;
- You need to know the current password for the 'admin' account.
Steps
- SSH into the Intel NAS and login as root. Password will be 'soho' followed by the admin password.
- Execute the command 'crontab -e'.
- Press 'i' to enable text insertion (crontab -e uses Vi)
- Enter the following line of text: '30 17 * * 1,3,6 /sbin/reboot'
- The numbers "1,3,6" are the days of the week that the command '/sbin/reboot' will be executed. To execute the command every day, replace 1,3,6 with *.
- The numbers "30 17" means that the command will run at 17:30 on the specified days.
- Press the 'Esc' button.
- Hold down shift and press Z twice. You should be returned to the '#' prompt.
- Type 'exit' to logout of the SSH Session.
Comments (2)
Peter said
at 12:52 am on Apr 4, 2010
*sigh*, is this the only work around for the samba issue? It seems like the public directories work but not the private ones, anything requiring a login won't connect after the samba locks up. Kinda disappointed that Intel/EMC has not released a new version to fix this. Appreciate the walkthrough though.
Shahan said
at 2:21 pm on Apr 23, 2010
How can you undo this?
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