[Samba] Samba and Rsync

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:54:04AM +1300, Cameron Rangeley wrote:
> I am running two RHEL boxes, each day I am rsyncing some data from my primary server to my secondary server, the secondary server will be activated in a DR situation.
> 
> I am rsyncing the entire /home partition.
> 
> On my primary server there are about 8 samba shares for data that the clients can access all the samba shares point to various sub-directories within /home.  My issue is that on my secondary server I cant connect to the shares from a windows workstation. 
> 
> My smb.conf file is the same as my primary server and to test I have created a test mount in /mnt/test and I can connect to that fine.  It appears that the issue is all around the fact that these directories that have been created with rsync.
> 
> My rsync command is: rsync -arzgopulv --delete /home root at 192.168.9.2:/

-a implies -r and -p (among others) so that's redundant.

> My smbd.log file says: '/home/folder/folder/folder does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [folder] Error was Permission denied.
> 
> I can see the folder in samba I have forced the user as root and I have chmodded the folder to 777.  Access from the console to these files and folders works fine.
> 
> Has anyone got any other ideas that I can try?

ACL problem maybe?  If you use posix ACLs then rsync -A will transfer
those too.

If you store ACL info in a samba database, you will have to transfer
that somehow.

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Len Sorensen