samba - May 2015 - By design/possible bug? Folders unmarked from sharing are still accessible

I'm on LinuxMint 17 Cinnamon desktop, Samba 4.2.1, and Windows 7

 

I can share folders fine, but when I unshare a folder, it remains visible
and accessible to users. It should disappear and become inaccessible when
unshared.

 

Repro steps - sharing the folder:

1.       Open up the Cinnamon file manager, navigate to Home folder.

2.       Right click on Downloads, choose Sharing Options

3.       Set the Share this Folder checkbox

4.       Click Modify Share (if an error occurs here, usershares need to be
set higher than 0 in smb.conf)

5.       The folder can now be browsed from a Windows 7 PC

 

Repro steps - unsharing the folder:

1.       Open up the Cinnamon file manager, navigate to Home folder.

2.       Right click on Downloads, choose Sharing Options

3.       Clear the Share this Folder checkbox

4.       Click Modify Share 

5.       Go back to Windows 7 File Explorer

6.       The folder is still accessible, browse-able, and writeable.

 

The workaround is to do: sudo service smbd restart

 

Impact: in the scenario where users need flexibility to create their own
shares this creates a bottleneck in the system admin having to recycle smbd
which then has further impact of disrupting other operations using Samba.

Hello Caesar, 

This is a Linux Mint bug, not a Samba bug. They provided the GUI frontend /
Cinnamon file manager, and should have done the reload after they changed Samba
share settings.

Met vriendelijke groeten, 
Germ van Ek 
Esyst BV 

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Caesar Samsi" <cmsamsi at gmail.com>
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Verzonden: Zaterdag 9 mei 2015 22:39:56
> Onderwerp: [Samba] By design/possible bug? Folders unmarked from sharing
are
> still accessible
> I'm on LinuxMint 17 Cinnamon desktop, Samba 4.2.1, and Windows 7
> I can share folders fine, but when I unshare a folder, it remains visible
> and accessible to users. It should disappear and become inaccessible when
> unshared.
> Repro steps - sharing the folder:
> 1. Open up the Cinnamon file manager, navigate to Home folder.
> 2. Right click on Downloads, choose Sharing Options
> 3. Set the Share this Folder checkbox
> 4. Click Modify Share (if an error occurs here, usershares need to be
> set higher than 0 in smb.conf)
> 5. The folder can now be browsed from a Windows 7 PC
> Repro steps - unsharing the folder:
> 1. Open up the Cinnamon file manager, navigate to Home folder.
> 2. Right click on Downloads, choose Sharing Options
> 3. Clear the Share this Folder checkbox
> 4. Click Modify Share
> 5. Go back to Windows 7 File Explorer
> 6. The folder is still accessible, browse-able, and writeable.
> The workaround is to do: sudo service smbd restart
> Impact: in the scenario where users need flexibility to create their own
> shares this creates a bottleneck in the system admin having to recycle smbd
> which then has further impact of disrupting other operations using Samba.
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