[Samba] Cannot write to home directory, but I can write to subfolder

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Hai Nico, 

Did your stop samba and start samba already. 
I have on one old server, also debian wheezy samba 3.6.6 about the same problem, stopping samba and starting solves it.  !! restarting samba not !! 
Give it a try. 

If that does not work, try the following. 
Disconnect all you netwerk shares on the computer and reconnect them. 
I have 1 pc here (win7 64bit) which is getting a "ghost" share. 
With that i mean one user gets a drivemapping to another users folder,
When this happens, we have also the problem that this user cannot open or write any file. 

So 2 thing you can tryout without rebooting the server. 


Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Nico De Ranter
> Verzonden: donderdag 21 januari 2016 10:25
> Aan: samba
> Onderwerp: [Samba] Cannot write to home directory, but I can write to
> subfolder
> 
> I have a storage server running samba 3.6.6 on Debian. Unfortunately I
> cannot easily upgrade samba as this is a production server.  The server is
> a member of a Samba-based domain, unix users are still handled by NIS.
> 
> When I logon to a Windows 7 pc (also part of the domain) with my own user
> my homedirectory is automatically available as H:\. I can see the content
> of the directory but when I try to write anything I get "You need
> permission to perform this action".  On unix I have no problem creating
> files in that same folder.  The same goes for any existing subdirectories.
> 
> I created a folder with 777 permissions. When I try to create a folder
> inside that folder from Windows the action succeeds. When I look at the
> new
> folder from unix the user and group are the same as the other folders,
> permissions are set to 755. The only difference is that there is a default
> ACL
>     default:user::rwx
>     default:group::rwx
>     default:other::r-x
> (which I do not like actually as this means that anything I create from
> unix in that folder now gets default permission 775, ugh).
> Setting that same ACL on my homedirectory doesn't change a thing, I am
> still unable to create any files or folders in my homedirectory.  I am
> however able to create files and folders in the subdirectory I created
> from
> windows.
> 
> Fortunately most other users can create files in their homedirectories
> without problems.
> 
> Any idea what could be causing this and how to resolve it?
> 
> Rebooting the server is not an option.
> 
> Nico
> 
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