[Samba] Change in behaviour for the "%U" substitution in 4.10.8?

Tue Sep 17 12:11:03 UTC 2019

Ah, thanks - I'll try with those this afternoon and check the behaviour with this version

17 Sep 2019, 12:56 by samba at lists.samba.org:

> Hai, 
>
> Yes, the repo does not allow different versionnumbers, but i do have all my versions in backup. 
>
> I made a few tar.gz for you so you can test again with 4.10.7 on a local repo.
> You can find them here. http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/ 
> The 4.10.7 for Stretch Buster and Bionic source and deb's are there to get. 
>
>
> Greetz, 
>
> Louis
>
>
>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens gac via samba
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 17 september 2019 12:49
>> Aan: Samba
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Change in behaviour for the "%U" 
>> substitution in 4.10.8?
>>
>> This is unfortunately still happening - anyone else have any 
>> other ideas?
>>
>> As a reminder/summary of the information from earlier in the thread;
>>
>> - My [homes] share is "path = /shares/DOMAIN/%U"
>> - I am logging into a Windows 7 client as "DOMAIN\username"
>> - My log.smbd shows "canonicalize_connect_path failed for 
>> service username, path /shares/DOMAIN/domain_username" (where 
>> DOMAIN is the domain name with upper-case letters, domain is 
>> the domain name with lower-case latters)
>> - this issue is affecting two shares in total which use the 
>> %U substitution, both are showing the same error. Any shares 
>> which use fixed paths are fine, as expected
>> - this only seemed to start happening when I upgraded to 
>> 4.10.8 from Louis van Belle's repo; I did not see the problem 
>> with the 4.10.7 packages from the same repo. Unfortunately 
>> the repo removes old versions of packages so I can't roll 
>> back to 4.10.7 as a reproduction or workaround
>>
>> I'd appreciate any more tips, thank you!
>>
>> 6 Sep 2019, 11:53 by samba at lists.samba.org:
>>
>> > I hadn't, but I did that just now; still the same behaviour.
>> >
>> > 6 Sep 2019, 11:49 by samba at lists.samba.org:
>> >
>> >> Have you tried running
>> >>
>> >> net cache flush
>> >>
>> >> after you have removed the SERVER lines from you config?
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Am 06.09.19 um 12:33 schrieb gac via samba:
>> >>
>> >>> I've now changed the ownership to root, as you suggest.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've removed the ACLs from /shares/DOMAIN - they don't 
>> need to be there as anyone can enter this directory already 
>> so there's no need for them.
>> >>>
>> >>> The ACLs on my individual home directory:
>> >>>
>> >>> root at server:/shares# getfacl /shares/DOMAIN/username
>> >>> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
>> >>> # file: shares/DOMAIN/username
>> >>> # owner: username
>> >>> # group: domain\040users
>> >>> user::rwx
>> >>> user:www-data:--x
>> >>> group::---
>> >>> mask::r-x
>> >>> other::---
>> >>>
>> >>> Still no joy, and the logs are still showing:
>> >>>
>> >>> canonicalize_connect_path failed for service username, 
>> path /shares/DOMAIN/domain_username
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for all your advice so far but I still don't 
>> believe this is a permissions problem, Samba is trying to 
>> access a directory which simply does not exist, and never has 
>> existed...
>> >>> 6 Sep 2019, 11:19 by samba at lists.samba.org:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 06/09/2019 11:12, gac wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> I imagine the numeric UID is my old boss who left the 
>> company a few years ago, and by this point his account has 
>> been removed, not just disabled. The only thing contained by 
>> the DOMAIN directory is a home directory for each user, which 
>> is owned by them. So I don't _think_ this is the problem.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> The command you suggested returns:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> winbind_lookup_rids failed: WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> The ACLs are to allow --x access for the 'www-data' 
>> into users home directories for use with Apache+mod_userdir, 
>> and then r-x access for their www directory
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> Try changing the ownership of /shares/DOMAIN to root
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What about the getfacl commands ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Rowland
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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