-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Commented this out in the homes share and the problem went away: ;hide special files = Yes What happened: 1. I rarely ever do upgrades. Since I keep good backups, I almost always do clean installs. Keeps me honest with the backups for one thing. Anyway, under these conditions Mandriva will sometimes assume that any subdirectory under /home is supposed to be a user. So what it does under the conditions of a clean install is it will create at least one user using one of these and assign that directory to them. In other words it created a user storeage (complete with mis-spelling) and assigned the /home/storeage directory to that user. This WAS my public directory assigned to nobody.nogroup. I had to change it back in order to make it available again. So anyway, that is not a Samba issue. I wish Mandriva had back-ported the Samba packages so that I wouldn't have had to cope with both an OS upgrade AND a Samba upgrade simultaneously. I think that in the future I will download the old packages first and use them after an OS upgrade for a while. 2. The line "hide special files = Yes" seems to be causing Samba to hide ALL files. That is why I could not access my homes share. It's definitely a bug but it is one I can life with now that I know how to get around it. Methodology for solving this was to disable the majority of the lines in the share and then enable them one at a time until the problem child was discovered. This was not a problem in 3.0.10 Jim C. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCooYYB4AhF6wVFMERAp5dAJ9OHSAWfpB5vu5kIgfnEaBHnS99qQCfcZPG QS+vhm32yQE1dvV39QXNwu4=oC+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Anne Wilson
2005-Jun-05 11:39 UTC
[Samba] SOLVED? HELP! After upgrade, can't get at my shares
On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 05:56, Jim C. wrote:> Commented this out in the homes share and the problem went away: > > ;hide special files = Yes >My situation had much in common with Jim's but was not identical. In my case only the client was moved to Mandriva 2005LE, the server remaining with samba 3.0.10, In my case I could see the files in the shared directories, but could not write to them. I tried uninstalling the default-installed 3.0.13 and installing 3.1, but the problem remained. Is it likely that the problem is caused by a mis-match - maybe something changed in these later versions that is incompatible with the older one? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20050605/8096ed13/attachment.bin