K L
2013-Jun-10 08:26 UTC
[Samba] Samba failing irregularly ('Access is denied' in Windows), restarting smbd 'works'
Hi all, I have been a happy samba user for a few months now. Since last week I have been a less happy user, however. I am hoping you can help. I probably need some directions on debugging/log viewing. I have a samba 3.5.10 server which works fine most of the time (on my Centos 6.3 machine). Windows (2008 R2) users are using network drives from this server. I set up winbind which seems to work. Problems started to happen when I deleted the winbind_idmap file. Somewhere on a list I saw this was perfectly fine to do. The idmap did rebuild, but the group-id mismatched (I think someone deleted a user account on the ad server). I then fixed the group IDs of the files and everything is working again. The problem I am having is windows boxes telling me "[sharename] is not accessible - Access is denied". I don't know how to find the source of this problem. I set "log level = 2 winbind:3 auth:3", but I don't know what to look for. When this problem occurs, I currently restart smbd and things work again. Can someone push me in the right direction? Thanks, kl