[Samba] Samba works, but no acces to home directories

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:49:40 +0200
Daniel Spannbauer via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 
> I installed a fresh opensuse Tumbleweed with samba
> 4.8.2+git.30.690aa93c189-2.2.
> 
> smb.conf looks as follows:
> 
> [global]
>         server string = host12
>         workgroup = WORKGROUP
>         ; speed optimierungen
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>         debug level = 10
>         getwd cache = yes
>         preserve case = yes
>         bind interfaces only = yes
>         interfaces = br0
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         printing = cups
>         printcap name = cups
>         printcap cache time = 750
>         smb ports = 139
>         local master = no
>         kernel oplocks = No
>         ; ----- same as "umask 2"
>         create mask = 0775
>         ; ----- disconnect after N minutes inactive
>         dead time = 300
>         ; ----- check whether clients are alive [seconds]
>         keep alive = 300
>         ; ----- may delete readonly files
>         delete readonly = yes
>         ; ----- logfiles grow up to N kByte
>         max log size = 100
>         ; ----- don't map archive bit to execute bit
>         map archive = no
>         directory mask = 0775
>         ; ----- WINS support
>         wins support = yes
>         name resolve order = wins host bcast
>         security = user
>         unix charset = UTF-8
>         netbios aliases = homedirs
>         usershare allow guests = No
> 
> 
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directory
>         browseable = no
>         writable = yes
> 
> [......som other sharees....]
> 
> Permissions for the home directories should work I think:
> 
> host12# ll -d /mnt/home/user/
> drwxr-xr-x 75 user entw 4096 Jun 25 15:30 /mnt/home/user/ User is
> added to the samba password database with "smbpasswd -a
> user". /mnt/home is on a second disk:
> UUID=d3100e02-be82-43a0-af5b-054bcf6c0575  /boot        ext4
> acl,user_xattr  0  2 UUID=91b5580b-6272-408e-bf24-1b7ffe07da55
> swap         swap  defaults        0  0
> UUID=d1413106-210d-4f03-8f60-699cf3486251  /            ext4
> acl,user_xattr  0  1
> UUID=086480e2-d313-495f-8fba-fef25c9149a3 /mnt/home/   ext4
> acl,user_xattr  0  1 All shares are working EXCEPT the user homes.
> With a raised log level I found: --------------------------
> 

First (and this probably doesn't have anything to do with your
problem), did you know that 'acl' and 'user_xattr' are part of the
defaults for ext4 ? 
Obviously not, or you wouldn't have replaced 'defaults' with
'acl,user_xattr', can I suggest you change it back ?

Do the users home directories exist ?
Do they match the default setting 'template homedir = /home/%D/%U' ?
Where '%D' will be 'WORKGROUP' and '%U' will be the users name.

I am taking it for granted that the users also exist as a local Unix
user i.e. they are in /etc/passwd

Rowland