[Samba] copy of a share without path

[Alexandre Klein]

Matthias,

Sorry I should have wrote more details.
I agree with your message and I understand that template12 is not meant to
be a share.

What I tried to say is:

when I have this configuration:
[template12]
    writable = yes
    browsable = yes
    valid users = alex

[alex]
  path = /home/alex
  copy = template12


I can see this error in /var/log/samba/log/smbd
[2016/04/25 16:44:14.719192,  0]
../lib/param/loadparm.c:966(lpcfg_service_ok)
  WARNING: No path in service template12 - making it unavailable!

And I'm unable to access "alex".

But if I don't use "copy", then it works correctly:
[alex]
  path = /home/alex
  valid users = alex




Alexandre Klein
Tanuki Software, Ltd.
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 5:10 PM, mathias dufresne <infractory at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How to use copy:
> [template12]
>     writable = yes
>     browsable = yes
>     valid users = andy, dave, jay
> [share1]
>   path=/path/to/share1
>   copy = template12
> [share2]
>   path=/path/to/share2
>   copy = template12
>
> Here template12 is a template and it used later for declaring shares
> share1 and share2.
>
> template (or in my example template12) is not meant to be used as a share
> because a share is a directory you are sharing. A directory is represented
> by a path. So without path to the directory you want to share, Samba can't
> share anything because there is nothing to share...
>
>
> 2016-04-21 11:56 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Klein <
> alexandre.klein at tanukisoftware.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is the example for 'copy' (
>> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch06.html ) valid?
>> [template]
>>     writable = yes
>>     browsable = yes
>>     valid users = andy, dave, jay
>>
>> When I'm trying a similar configuration, I can't log in and I have this
>> message in log.smbd:
>> WARNING: No path in service template - making it unavailable!
>>
>> It seems I need to add a path:
>> [template]
>>     writable = yes
>>     browsable = yes
>>     valid users = andy, dave, jay
>>     path = /path/somewhere
>>
>> Or maybe there is something with the version of Samba that I'm using:
>> 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.11
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexandre Klein
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