[Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP - SOLVED

[Dean Carpenter]

Well, it turns out to be the Webroot SpySweeper product that causes this.
Disabling it had no effect, nor did a simple uninstall.  It required a
reboot after uninstall.

Bizarre.  I'll be contacting them via email today :)

-- 
Dean Carpenter
deano at areyes com
94TT :)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Carpenter" <deano at areyes.com>
To: "Keith Edmunds" <keith at midnighthax.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP


>
> ----- 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 :(