Configure OpenVPN to permit mapping disk to local windows machine

I install the OpenVPN One-Click installation using the private IP option (not sure if that matters).

On that instance, I setup a samba share:

mkdir /mnt/idrive
apt-get install samba
apt-get install samba-client
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

I append this to smb.conf:
[idrive]
Comment = infinity drive
Read only = no
Public = yes
Locking = no
Browseable = yes
Writeable = yes
Guest = ok
Path = /mnt/idrive

Then I add a user and set that user to own the share:

useradd allpeople -s /usr/sbin/nologin
smbpasswd -a allpeople
chown allpeople /mnt/idrive

Then I restart the samba service:

/etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc restart

In windows, I connect to the Linode VPN via openVPN client. I checked to make sure my public IP now appears as the Linode IP.

Then from SSH I successfully ping my local windows machine's local IP. I then do the same in the opposite direction and note that neither of them time out. I disconnect the VPN client and try again to confirm that they both now time-out.

After restoring the VPN connection I am unable to map \{linode internal ip}\idrive

I went through the openVPN dashboard and tried toggling almost every setting with no luck.

Can anyone with experience mapping a Linode share to their local machine help me out?

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Then I restart the samba service:
 
/etc/init.d/samba-ad-dc restart
 
In windows, I connect to the Linode VPN via openVPN client. I checked to make sure my public IP now appears as the Linode IP.

I believe the correct way to restart samba on a linux machine is with the following:

[sudo] systemctl restart samba

YMMV depending on the distro you're using…

-- sw

@stevewi
That command didn't work:

root@li1021-241:~# systemctl restart samba
Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service not found

Samba is not being run via systemctl so the correct command is actually:

/usr/sbin/service smbd restart

And then I needed to make a samba user/password to get it to work.

Thanks!

@stevewi
That command didn't work:

root@li1021-241:~# systemctl restart samba
Failed to restart samba.service: Unit samba.service not found

Samba is not being run via systemctl so the correct command is actually:

/usr/sbin/service smbd restart

And then I needed to make a samba user/password to get it to work.

Thanks!

Faulty memory…sorry. Glad you fixed it though.

-- sw

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