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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:11:44
Message-Id: 29200.1451427068@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update by lee
1 lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > covici@××××××××××.com writes:
4 >
5 > > lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> covici@××××××××××.com writes:
8 > >>
9 > >> > lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
10 > >> >
11 > >> >> covici@××××××××××.com writes:
12 > >> >>
13 > >> >> > Hi. I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my shares,
14 > >> >> > I can not access any subfolders of that share. It usually gives me some
15 > >> >> > kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
16 > >> >> > Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings for
17 > >> >> > any folder. Anyone know what they did and how to fix? There is a hard
18 > >> >> > blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.
19 > >> >> >
20 > >> >> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
21 > >> >>
22 > >> >> Do they have a changelog which you looked at? Can you mount these
23 > >> >> shares from a Linux client?
24 > >> >
25 > >> > These are on a Linux server, so there is no problem there.
26 > >>
27 > >> Can you definitely mount the share from a remote Linux client without
28 > >> problems?
29 > >>
30 > >> > Changelog doesn't say anything but the version number.
31 > >
32 > > I don't have any remote linux client and this is samba, used so that
33 > > windows can access the share.
34 >
35 > You could make a copy of everything in the inaccessible share, make a
36 > new share with settings identical to the settings of the shares that are
37 > still accessible when copying has finished, and try to access the new
38 > share with a remote client.
39 >
40 > If you can access the new share, either something with the old one is
41 > weird, or you have changed something like permissions or extended
42 > attributes by copying.
43 >
44 >
45 > If you cannot access the new share, try a different kernel version (or
46 > try a different kernel version first). I've had a case in which a
47 > kernel would freeze/panic when the directory contents of a directory
48 > that was exported via NFS were displayed with ls on a NFS client.
49 >
50 > IIRC samba uses kernel support on the server. Perhaps you have a
51 > version mismatch between the new samba version and what the kernel
52 > supports.
53
54 The share is my whole system, so obviously I cannot copy to a new
55 share. I have one share working correctly -- the files under that share
56 are owned by the user that I am logging in as, so if I log in as root,
57 you would think I could access everything, so this is very strange.
58
59 --
60 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
61 How do
62 you spend it?
63
64 John Covici
65 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update lee <lee@××××××××.de>