[Samba] vfs_ChDir failed: Permission denied

[Rowland penny]

On 31/01/2021 18:16, Marco Shmerykowsky via samba wrote:
>
> On 2021-01-31 1:11 pm, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>> On 31/01/2021 17:35, Marco Shmerykowsky wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I think what happened was that Samba ignored your malformed line and
>>>>>> everything ended up in the default (*) domain. Now you have fixed 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> problem, your users & groups will now have different numeric ID's, I
>>>>>> Do hope you don't have a lot of data on that computer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, there is a ton of data.  On the upside, I was planning
>>>>> to move all this data to a new server in the next week or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to fix this either on the existing server or
>>>>> the new server?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your problem will be in identifying the correct owners of the files,
>>>> if everything looks okay now, I would very quickly setup a new Unix
>>>> domain member and copy everything to the new one, this should work,
>>>> but I would check  all ownerships on the new machine.
>>>
>>> It may not be such a big problem since ownership is really
>>> controlled by the group and not the user. Only one group can
>>> access the corresponding share directory.
>>>
>>> My migration plan was to copy the smb.conf file on the old
>>> server to the new server, create the same directories,
>>> apply permissions to the new directories and use scp to
>>> copy the data from old to the new.  Lastly, I would modify
>>> the group policies to point to the new server.
>>>
>>> Sounds reasonable?
>>> the old server to the new server.
>>
>>
>> That should work, provided you ensure that the smb.conf on the new
>> computer is correct.
>>
>> Having said that, if it is only the group you are worried about, just
>> fix the smb.conf on the old computer (which at this stage could just
>> be restarting Samba) and then fix the group ownership of the files and
>> directories.
>
> Out of ignorance, how do I fix the group ownership? of the files & 
> directories?
>

This would depend on your computer, at the moment your files will show 
as belonging to the group 'owners', but if you restart Samba, it is 
probable they will then show as belonging  to '2011'. If this is the 
case, then you can use chown or chgrp to change the group ownership back 
to 'owners'. I am not saying this is going to be a 5 minute job 😁

Rowland