[Samba] Deleted usershare permissions maintain precedence over regular shares

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Kyle Rabe <kyle.rabe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I set up two usershares to share my music and photos read-only a while ago.
> I recently decided to remove the usershares and recreate the shares in my
> smb.conf with read/write access to some users.  If the shares have the same
> names that the usershares originally had, it seems that the original
> read-only permissions still apply; however, if I change only the names of
> the shares, I gain read/write access.  Is there some way to flush the
> credentials?  Both machines (client and server) have been restarted.
>
> Here are some details.
>
> Client Machine: Windows XP Pro SP3, accessing Samba share through Windows
> Explorer
>
> Server Machine: Ubuntu Linux 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic, Samba 3.0.28a
>
> smb.conf
> -------------
> [global]
>  workgroup = xxx
>  server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
>  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>  log level = 2
>  max log size = 1000
>  syslog = 0
>  panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
>  security = user
>  encrypt passwords = true
>  passdb backend = tdbsam
>  invalid users = root
>  map to guest = never
>  socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>  hosts allow = 192.168. 127.0.0.1
>  unix extensions = false
>
> [new-music] # read/write works - usershare name was 'music'
>  comment = Music files
>  path = /mnt/750/Music
>  read only = no
>  guest ok = no
>  force user = kyle
>  force group = guest
>
> [new-pics] # read/write works - usershare name was 'pics'
>  comment = Pictures
>  path = /mnt/750/Pics
>  read only = no
>  guest ok = no
>  force user = kyle
>  force group = kyle
> -------------
>
> Also, the output of "net usershare list --long *" with or without sudo gives
> only the usage options - no usershares exist anymore.  I will gladly provide
> any other information that may be useful.
>

What are the permissions on the *nix filesystem?

John