[Samba] Odd - some users can mount /home, others cannot

Antoine Maartens a.maartens at a1.nl
Fri Dec 17 07:52:47 GMT 2004


LS,

What could cause the following situation:
Most users CAN connect to their /home other users CANNOT connect to their
/home and get the error 66 message.

All users concerned are in the same group and thus share the same gid.

I am aware of security stuff putting directories on 0777.

Setup is:
Win98SE
Fedora2
Samba 3.0.3-5

Funny thing is that a smclient -U username \\\\server\username
password works fine - so I can get a the data I need from the Linux side.

Error log reads as follows at log level 1:
[2004/12/16 10:14:59, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(771)
  fslinux (192.168.11.200) couldn't find service home

Now increased the loglevel to 10 for some detail.

A net use command on the Win98 machine reveals that the UNC mapping to the
users /home dir exists but it does not get mapped to the drive.

smb.cnf as follows:

[global]
   workgroup = Domein
        netbios name = fslinux
        server string = www
        security = user
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        update encrypted = Yes
        password server = *
        log level = 1
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%U
        time server = Yes
        add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s
/bin/false -M
 %u
        logon script = %U.bat
        logon path = \\%N\netlogon\%u
        logon drive = x:
        logon home = \\%L\%U
        domain logons = Yes
       os level = 65
        preferred master = True
        domain master = True
        wins support = yes
        winbind use default domain = yes
        utmp = yes
        map acl inherit = yes
        acl compatibility = auto
        admin users = root antoinem rob
        printing = cups
        printcap name = cups
        queuepause command = /usr/bin/disable %p
        queueresume command = /usr/bin/enable %p

[netlogon]
        path = /etc/samba/netlogon/
        browseable = No

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home/%U
        read only = No
        create mask = 0700
        force create mode = 0700
        directory mask = 0700
        force directory mode = 0700
        browseable = No

[profile]
        path = /home/%U
        read only = no
        profile acl = yes

[homedirs]

        comment = homedirs
        path = /home/homedirs/%U
        read only = No
        create mask = 0755
        force create mode = 0755
        directory mask = 0755
        force directory mode = 0755
        browsable = No

[groepen]
        comment = groepen
        path = /home/groepen/%U
        read only = No
        create mask = 0777
        force create mode = 0777
        directory mask = 0777
        force directory mode = 0777
        browsable = No

[appl]
        comment = onderwijs software
        path = /home/appl
        admin users = (real names removed)
        read list = @users
        write list = @users, at leerlingen, at onderwijzers
        read only = No
        create mask = 0777
        directory mask = 0777
        browseable = No

[SOFTWARE]
        comment = SOFTWARE
        path = /home/software
        read only = No
        browseable = No

[MEMO]
        comment = SOFTWARE
        path = /home/memo
        read only = No
        browseable = No
        admin users = xxx (real names removed
        read list = @users
        write list = @users
        read only = No
        create mask = 0777
        directory mask = 0777

[OVERZICHT]
        comment = homedirs
        path = /home/groepen
        read only = No
        create mask = 0755
        force create mode = 0755
        directory mask = 0755
        force directory mode = 0755
        browsable = No


[SYSADMIN]
        path = /
        valid users = xxx (real names removed)
        admin users = xxx (real names removed)
        read only = No
        browseable = No

[CDROM]
        path = /mnt/cdrom
        valid users = @users
        admin users = xxx
        browseable = No

[PRINTERS]
        path = /var/spool/samba
        printer admin = root
        printable = yes
        use client driver = yes
        browseable = no

[educat]
        path = /mnt/jb01
        read only = yes
	browseable= No



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