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psych-major
08-03-2006, 02:13 PM
I have been running a samba file server on my slack box for about a year with absolutely no issues. A couple of days ago I ran swaret for the first time in a while and grabbed some updates from current, including samba, although the changelog didn't indicate any dramatic changes to it.

Later that day, I noticed I can no longer get into either of my shared directories on the samba server from either a windows XP pc, or a linux PC. I can bring up the server and my two shared folders are listed, but when I attempt to enter either one, I get a permissions error.

I have double and triple checked my samba config and my folder permissions, and all is as it was. I also ran nmap against it and the appropriate ports are open for samba file sharing.

What's also strange is that I can still establish an outbound samba connection to a Windows file server, and I can establish an incoming connection from a Windows PC using WinSCP.

My smb.conf file is attached, and if anyone else has seen this issue, please let me know! Thanks in advance...

soulestream
08-04-2006, 12:52 AM
Delete the smb users and recreate them, then restart samba.

I have had an issue with that before.


Keith

psych-major
08-04-2006, 12:30 PM
Sounded like a great idea...

but didn't work :mad:

bummer

psych-major
08-04-2006, 12:33 PM
Although...
Did you mean the Samba users, or system users?

soulestream
08-04-2006, 04:05 PM
samba users


Soule

psych-major
08-04-2006, 04:09 PM
That's what I thought, and I had no luck.

I feel like such a traitor, but we now officially use SuSE here in the office where this PC lives, so I am in the middle of installing a fresh copy of OpenSuSE 10.1. This will obviously fix the Samba issue, but I'm still curious about what had caused it to break???