[Samba] Debian 9.8 and vanbelle-repos

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:12:01 +0100
"Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Am 21.02.19 um 19:19 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:
> > Am 21.02.19 um 16:51 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:
> >> Am 21.02.19 um 15:49 schrieb L.P.H. van Belle via samba:
> >>> Or... 
> >>>
> >>> Set the creator group option. 
> >>>
> >>> [Daten]
> >>> 	comment = Daten
> >>> 	create mask = 3660
> >>> 	directory mask = 3770
> >>
> >> did so, they test now. thanks
> > 
> > username and groupname aren't "mapped" into stuff like ls ,
> > smbstatus etc
> > 
> > nsswitch.conf?
> 
> and ....
> 
> somehow something is wrong here and I can't spot it so far
> 
> this morning they couldn't reach samba, after a restart of samba it
> worked again
> 
> The only changes this week were:
> 
> * upgrade to debian 9.8
> * installation of docker daemon on that server
> 
> We faced a problem with backup (Amanda ...) as well, so I disabled
> docker yesterday evening and flushed the iptables. So docker wasn't up
> this morning.
> 
> I know of the option to forbid docker to mess with the iptables ... in
> general we ran without any rules on that machine. Will test that.
> 
> But why a failure without rules?
> 
> and why that username issue mentioned above?
> 
> Could debian 9.8 have broken something by changing a library or so?

Anything is possible ;-)

Just updating the distro shouldn't really change anything to the extent
you are seeing, is there anything in the logs ?
Have you checked if anything has changed in smb.conf or nsswitch.conf ?
You might have to raise the Samba log level to get more info.

Rowland