Blank page when enabling SMB backend on Owncloud version 5

Question

Debian Squeeze, with Apache2 installed and running.

{"installed":"true","version":"5.0.25","versionstring":"5.0.13","edition":""}
http://servername.com/owncloud/status.php

My owncloud/config/config.php file:

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => '<gibberish>',
  'passwordsalt' => '<gibberish>',
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/owncloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'sqlite3',
  'version' => '5.0.25',
  'installed' => true,
);

"user_backends" => array (
        0 => array (
                "class"         => "OC_User_SMB",
                "arguments"     => array (
                        0 => 'localhost'
                        ),
                ),
        );

When I try accessing the main page (http://server.com/owncloud) or any of the .PHP files under it, I just get a blank page returned. If I comment out the last section for userbackends, it loads with the one user I've created. My goal is to have it authenticate against the SMB server that's running on the same system, as per ownCloud's Documentation. How can I get ownCloud to authenticate against the Samba server running on the same box?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Figured out the issue.

For diagnosing, ownCloud will spit out HTTP_500 errors. I checked my log at /var/log/apache2/error.log, and saw that it was a parse error on line 11. I checked the PHP reference guide, and a similar question on Stackoverflow. I realized that I closed the array too quickly with the );. I moved it to the end, and put the stanza from ownCloud's SMB configuration into the $CONFIG section, and now I can authenticate as a regular user on my Samba server.

I edited it as such:

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => '<gibberish>',
  'passwordsalt' => '<gibberish>',
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/owncloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'sqlite3',
  'version' => '5.0.25',
  'installed' => true,

  "user_backends" => array (
        0 => array (
                "class"         => "OC_User_SMB",
                "arguments"     => array (
                        0 => 'localhost'
                        ),
                ),
        ),
);

Blank page when enabling SMB backend on Owncloud version 5

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