[Samba] Computer can't access Sysvol

[Rowland Penny]

On 30/06/15 18:08, John Cobley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a computer which I recently took off the domain before shipping 
> to HP for repair.  I've now had it back and re-added it to the domain 
> and it no-longer appears to be able to access the sysvol share (even 
> using a domain admin login).
>
> I've seen this behaviour in one other machine but as it was just a 
> test machine I ignored the problem.
>
> When I try to access the share I can see this in the log -
>
>> [2015/06/30 17:00:53.055144,  0] 
>> ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4365(process_usershare_file)
>>   process_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/sysvo 
>> failed. No such file or directory
>
> It seems the computer is asking trying to look at a folder that 
> doesn't exist (the actual folder is "/var/lib/samba/sysvol/".
>
> I suppose using a symlink may help to get around the problem but it 
> doesn't really fix the underlying issue.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers?  I can provide extra information if 
> required.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Cobley

The problem here isn't sysvol, it's 'usershares', is there anything in 
your smb.conf referring to 'usershares' ?

Rowland