Have been trying to get this to work (with a bit of help of chatGPT :O).:

• netstat -antp | grep :445 only showing localhost

root@unraid:/# netstat -anp | grep :445
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:445           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2032162/smbd
tcp6       0      0 ::1:445                 :::*                    LISTEN      2032162/smbd

• wg0 is up and running. I can ping, view webgui on wg0 ip address but not SMB

[21:58:14] ~> Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 10.253.0.1 -Port 445
WARNING: TCP connect to (10.253.0.1 : 445) failed
ComputerName           : 10.253.0.1
RemoteAddress          : 10.253.0.1
RemotePort             : 445
InterfaceAlias         : peer-thebox-wg0-1
SourceAddress          : 10.253.0.2
PingSucceeded          : True
PingReplyDetails (RTT) : 13 ms
TcpTestSucceeded       : False
[21:58:24] ~>

• /var/log/samba/log.smbd is empy

• /var/log/samba/log.winbindd onyl has entries but not sure if this is relevant?

[2025/07/25 21:23:36.072570,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:29:11.059304,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:31:39.504003,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:34:45.069540,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:35:43.182166,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:37:20.779129,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:42:40.912065,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:45:34.131975,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:47:38.211196,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)
[2025/07/25 21:49:21.394124,  0, traceid=1] ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_dual.c:1982(winbindd_sig_term_handler)
  Got sig[15] terminate (is_parent=1)

Please help. I want to access my share remotely

-edit-

What did work was to use bind interfaces only = no but i dont want my smb shares accessible from public internet as you can imagine

Edited July 25, 2025Jul 25 by Tuumke

Put everything you modified back to stock settings and it should work with zero modification needed.

Once defaults are restored, what is the result of cat /etc/samba/smb-names.conf | grep interfaces ?

root@machine:/mnt/user/dockers# cat /etc/samba/smb-names.conf | grep interfaces
bind interfaces only = yes
interfaces = ipv4address ipv6address 10.253.0.1/24 127.0.0.1 ::1
root@machine:/mnt/user/dockers#