[Samba] Why my dir is not available ?

[Rowland penny]

On 12/03/16 18:28, Pierre Couderc wrote:
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> On 03/12/2016 06:45 PM, Rowland penny wrote:
>> On 12/03/16 17:37, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>>> I have a samba server with a "var" share.
>>>
>>> I have 2 client computers  which mount this share  each one with 
>>> each (identical) /etc/fstab: :
>>>
>>> //192.168.163.1/var    /mnt/var        cifs 
>>> _netdev,username=xxxx,password=yyyy
>>>
>>> On a first client, I try to ls :
>>>
>>> ls /mnt/var/www
>>>
>>> and I get well the contents of www
>>>
>>> On the second client, I get :
>>> ls: cannot open directory /mnt/var/www: Permission denied
>>>
>>> How it is possible ? where to look for ?
>>>
>>> please note that, on the 2 clients, if I ls  :
>>>
>>> ls /mnt/var gives me correct results !!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for any help.
>>>
>>> PC
>>>
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>> Hi, can you post a bit more info, how are you running Samba ?
>> Can you post the smb.conf files from the two machines ?
>>
>> Rowland
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> Thank you.
> Yes, I can. And I will if it is useful.

Yes

> But will it help you to help me ?

Possibly

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> I suppose have a correct samba configuration, as it works with many 
> customer computers (since years...).
> Ma question 1 : Is it possible that I am wrong on this point ?

Well, until we see the smb.conf, we will not know.

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> My question 2 :  what can make a difference between these 2 clients ?
> There is a small difference : the "good" customer is Ubuntu, and the 
> "bad" one is debian...

There shouldn't, in principal, be any difference.

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> Please note that I cannot send the 2 smb.conf because I have only one 
> ! It is on the server.
> There are no smb.conf on the clients.

Hang on, what are you running on the Unix clients, where do they auth to ?

Rowland

> The only element of configuration on the clients is the /etc/fstab
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