[Samba] old bug with usershares of what?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Mon Nov 5 11:42:53 UTC 2018


On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:03:54 +0300
Илья Коскин via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> sorry for opening this thread again, but it looks like there is some
> bug in samba usershares.
> I successfully reproduced this bug in OpenBSD and in Fedora.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Use default samba config.
> 2) Add options:
> usershare max shares = 5 (or else number)
> usershare allow guests = Yes
> 3) create usershares directory (personally i use directory path from
> testparm -v)
> 4) create group usershare and add target user to this group
> 5) chgrp usershares dir to usershare group
> 6) chown 1770 usershares dir
> 7) create usershare with: net usershare add share /home/user/share ""
> Everyone:F guest_ok=y
> 
> 8) try to access server with any client like windows or linux and
> voila: [2018/11/05 13:53:02.185034,  0]
> ../source3/param/loadparm.c:3560(load_usershare_service)
>   load_usershare_service: stat of /var/samba/usershares failed.
> Permission denied
> 
> 

Who owns /var/samba/usershares

Rowland



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