[Samba] user's home shares doesn't work with Samba 4.8.3

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 20:01:42 +0300
Dāvis Mosāns via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I just upgraded Samba 4.8.2 to 4.8.3 on Arch Linux and user's home
> shares doesn't work anymore.
> Downgrading back to 4.8.2 they work again.
> 
> On samba server
> 
> smb.conf
> ...
> 
> [homes]
>    comment = Lietotāju Mapes
>    browseable = no
>    writable = yes
>    valid users = @Lietotāji
>    invalid users = Guest, @Guests
> 
> ...
> 
> $ id
> uid=1004(Dace) gid=1004(Dace) groups=1004(Dace),100(Lietotāji)
> 
> $ grep Dace /etc/passwd
> Dace:x:1004:1004:Dace:/home/Dace:/bin/bash
> 
> $ net rpc share
> Enter WGRP\Dace's password:
> ...
> dace
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On windows host
> 
> 
> > net use Z: \\192.168.1.3\Dace /USER:Dace
> Ievadiet 'Dace' paroli, lai izveidotu savienojumu ar '192.168.1.3':
> System error 53 has occurred.
> 
> The network path was not found.
> 
> 
> In /var/log/samba/client.log there appears
> 
> [2018/07/04 18:34:19.838134,  0]
> ../source3/smbd/service.c:774(make_connection_snum)
>   canonicalize_connect_path failed for service dace,
> path /home/SMBSRV/dace
> 
> 
> 
> I noticed a difference that with working 4.8.2 version
> 
> $ net rpc share
> Enter WGRP\Dace's password:
> ...
> Dace
> 
> (notice share name with uppercase rather than lowercase)
> 
> 
> Don't really know what would be needed to investigate this further so
> let me know what additional details should I provide.
> 
> I also noticed that if I install samba 4.8.3 right after 4.8.2 without
> reboot (but just restart smbd) then user's shares does work but after
> reboot they don't anymore.
> 
> Thanks!

We had something similar very recently and the only difference between
4.8.2 & 4.8.3 that could be causing this was:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13369

The OP was asked to open a bug report, but I cannot see where a bug
report was added and without the bug report, it will not get fixed.
Perhaps you would care to open a bug report here:

https://bugzilla.samba.org/

Rowland