[Samba] permission problem samba share 2nd suse server

Kaustubh Chaudhari c_kitu at yahoo.co.in
Mon Jan 8 09:05:26 GMT 2007


Hi Roland,


Tell me first both the system that you are using are on linux than why
you are using samba there, use nfs :D

further seems strange to me, 

Mount the same share on local system and than see if you face the same
error.

KK

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 08:58 +0100, Roland_Lepper at Liteonit.com wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> Nobody has any idea?
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> Best Regards,
> Roland de Lepper
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> Dear all,
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> I'm running a fileserver on Suse10. The purpose of this fileserver is to store only mailbackups.
> I also have backupserver running Suse10 with Dar&Sarab installed. backups will be done on HDD. This
> runs perfect.
> 
> because I need to mount the samba share of the fileserver to the backupserver i did:
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> mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=xxx,debug=4 //ipaddress/mailbackup /mnt/servers/mailbackup
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> This will mount the samba share on the backupserver.
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> if I want to access the mounted share on the backupserver I can 'browse' to the first folder. After
> that I get a permission denied error.
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> The permissions settings:
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> fileserver:
> drwxrwx--- user.root user-mailbackup-folder
> -rwxrw-r-- user.root user-mailbackup-files
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> backupserver:
> drwxr-xr-x-- root.root user-mailbackup-folder
> ?              ?            user-mailbackup-files (permission denied error)
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> Because root ID is always '0' I thought this will be no problem to run Dar&Sarab and access the
> users-mailbackup-files on the backupserver. Apparently this is not the case, and I'm a bit stuck
> now.
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> Why root can't access the user-mailbackup-files on the backupserver but CAN 'browse'
> user-mailbackup-folder on the backupserver?
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> ps. Backup server is running Samba, Samba-client, Libsmbclient
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Best Regards,
> Roland de Lepper
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