[Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP

[Dean Carpenter]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Edmunds" <keith at midnighthax.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP


> On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:48:26 -0400
> Dean Carpenter <deano at areyes.com> wrote:
>
> > The really weird part is that I can connect to any subdirectory below
the
> > share root just fine.
>
> I would suspect directory permissions/ownership of the share root. Can the
> same user successfully access the share root from another PC?

Yes, that's the weird part.  From the original msg ...

It gets odder.  This problem happens on my main XP box.  A second XP box
still works just fine, as it always has.  Connects to share roots with
aplomb.  So it looks like samba is OK - connecting from this XP box and from
smbclient works fine.

> Keith

Permissions haven't changed, and I've checked them in any case.  It's not
bloody consistent, and that irks me.  I would expect *all* XP boxes to be
unable to connect to the share root, but that's not the case.  Plus,
smbclient on the debian box connects just fine.

I also just built another test debian box, with a clean install of
sarge/testing from Debian.  On top of that is the current 3.0.5 samba, and
I've added the local user "testid" with "smbpasswd -a testid".  That seems
to have added it to the /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb file.  I'm able to use
smbclient on this test box to connect to a test share on it, as well as to
the //debian/docs1 share on the main Linux box.

Yet the failing XP boxes exhibit the same access denied problem when
connecting to the share root on this new test debian box.

So it appears that something on those XP boxes (the original problem one and
the new test box I built earlier) is disagreeing with the default samba
v3.0.5 config somewhere.  I just don't know where to look :(

-- 
Dean Carpenter
deano at areyes com
94TT :)