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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:36:04
Message-Id: 877fjvkjan.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 covici@××××××××××.com writes:
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3 > lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >> covici@××××××××××.com writes:
6 >>
7 >> > lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
8 >> >
9 >> >> covici@××××××××××.com writes:
10 >> >>
11 >> >> > lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
12 >> >> >
13 >> >> >> covici@××××××××××.com writes:
14 >> >> >>
15 >> >> >> > Hi. I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my shares,
16 >> >> >> > I can not access any subfolders of that share. It usually gives me some
17 >> >> >> > kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
18 >> >> >> > Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings for
19 >> >> >> > any folder. Anyone know what they did and how to fix? There is a hard
20 >> >> >> > blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.
21 >> >> >> >
22 >> >> >> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
23 >> >> >>
24 >> >> >> Do they have a changelog which you looked at? Can you mount these
25 >> >> >> shares from a Linux client?
26 >> >> >
27 >> >> > These are on a Linux server, so there is no problem there.
28 >> >>
29 >> >> Can you definitely mount the share from a remote Linux client without
30 >> >> problems?
31 >> >>
32 >> >> > Changelog doesn't say anything but the version number.
33 >> >
34 >> > I don't have any remote linux client and this is samba, used so that
35 >> > windows can access the share.
36 >>
37 >> You could make a copy of everything in the inaccessible share, make a
38 >> new share with settings identical to the settings of the shares that are
39 >> still accessible when copying has finished, and try to access the new
40 >> share with a remote client.
41 >>
42 >> If you can access the new share, either something with the old one is
43 >> weird, or you have changed something like permissions or extended
44 >> attributes by copying.
45 >>
46 >>
47 >> If you cannot access the new share, try a different kernel version (or
48 >> try a different kernel version first). I've had a case in which a
49 >> kernel would freeze/panic when the directory contents of a directory
50 >> that was exported via NFS were displayed with ls on a NFS client.
51 >>
52 >> IIRC samba uses kernel support on the server. Perhaps you have a
53 >> version mismatch between the new samba version and what the kernel
54 >> supports.
55 >
56 > The share is my whole system, so obviously I cannot copy to a new
57 > share.
58
59 You can still try a different kernel, preferably one that is compatible
60 with the samba version you're using.
61
62 Other than that, I don't understand why anyone would try to export the
63 whole system like that. It sounds like a recipe for failure to me.

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