[Samba] Cant access home folder after 4.13.x

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:09:04 +0000
evil cRaftKnife via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've been using Samba from pkgsrc successfully on Illumos, SmartOS
> specifically until I moved to 4.17.11. When I try to access my home
> folder on Linux I get,
> 
> chdir_current_service: vfs_ChDir(/home/fukr/kev) failed: Permission
> denied. Current token: uid=10000, gid=10001, 3 groups: 10001 10000
> 10002
> 
> My home folder permissions are 700. If I change to 755 it works fine.
> My the uid, gid are,
> 
> kev at fs /home/fukr/kev $ id kev
> uid=10000(kev) gid=10001(net-users)
> 
> It seems to work if the permissions are set to 705 also.
> 
> All other shares seem to work fine. I also moved on to a newer
> release(4.19.3) with even more weirdness. The other shares I have
> configured only show folders with no files in them.
> 
> I presume that I am missing something in my smb.conf I just don't know
> where to look. Can anybody send me a pointer please?
> 
> There was nothing special about my smb.conf,
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         dedicated keytab file = /opt/local/etc/samba/samba.keytab
>         dns proxy = No
>         kerberos method = dedicated keytab
>         log file = /var/log/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         realm = FUKR.ORG.UK
>         server role = standalone server
>         server string = Samba Server
>         workgroup = FUKR
>         idmap config * : backend = tdb

You appear to be running Samba as a standalone server, but you also
have lines meant for a Unix domain member, can you please explain why ?

Rowland