I am new to the Samba world and need to port the Samba setup from an old server
running BEL Server (RedHat under the hood) with Samba 3.0.25 to a RedHat EL 5.2
server with Samba 3.0.28, but some of the share access is not working.
After copying over the smb.conf file I ran testparm and had issues with the
oplocks so I commented out the entries referring to oplocks (also the docs
indicated that modifiying the lock settings should not be necessary).
After starting the smbd/nmbd the server shows up in the network browser along
with the workstations and old Samba server (I changed the name in the new server
smb.conf file so they could both be accessed) and the users can access their
home shares but not the secondary shares. The secondary shares have entries such
as:
user = @groupname
where the group names are valid linux groups on both the old and new servers.
There does not appear to be a domain server in use - users login in with simple
name and password on the PC's.
The old linux server used the smbpasswd backend so I just ported it rather than
try to modify before I get the shares working.
The error messages we get are as follows:
From 2000 PC "The network name cannot be found"
From XP PC "The network path was not found"
Both systems tested can ping the server with the hostname.
I just tested another PC used for some mail hosting programs and it can access
all the shares but is logged in as Administrator so is using the root user
mapping to access all.
The output from the testparm command is as follows:
[global]
workgroup = SILON
map to guest = Bad User
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap cache time = 60
printcap name = cups
dns proxy = No
idmap uid = 10000-10500
idmap gid = 10501-10999
path = /home/administrator/SHARES
username = @staff
write list = @staff
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
create mask = 0700
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
use client driver = Yes
browseable = No
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
write list = @adm, root
inherit permissions = Yes
guest ok = Yes
[pdf-gen]
comment = PDF Generator (only valid users)
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
printing = bsd
print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s"
"%H" "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J"
&
lpq command = /bin/true
lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j
[install]
path = /home/administrator/SHARES/install
[general]
path = /home/administrator/SHARES/general
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
[lab_data]
path = /home/administrator/SHARES/lab_data
username =
valid users = @lab-staff, samplonius
write list = @lab-staff
read only = No
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
[backup]
path = /home/administrator/SHARES/backup
username = @secure_staff
write list = @secure_staff
[acct]
comment = Accounting Share
path = /home/administrator/SHARES/acct
valid users = @secure_staff
read list = @secure_staff
write list = @secure_staff
[root@silonnew ~]#
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Ken
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