[Samba] Share won't mount -- how to debug?

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 18:58 +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 13:32 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
> > On 11/3/21 12:45, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 11:45 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
> > > > And the dramatic conclusion is that no, it wasn't the
> > > > conflicting
> > > > group
> > > > name interfering with the mount:
> > > 
> > > OK, if you run this from the DC:
> > > 
> > > ping -c1 data2
> > > 
> > > Does it work ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes:
> > root at samba-dc:~# ping -c1 data2
> > PING data2.ea.linuxcs.com (192.168.1.81) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.81 (192.168.1.81): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> > time=0.514 ms
> > 
> > 
> > > Then (again on the DC):
> > > 
> > > smbclient -NL data2
> > > 
> > > What does that produce ?
> > 
> > root at samba-dc:~# smbclient -NL data2
> > Anonymous login successful
> > 
> > 	Sharename       Type      Comment
> > 	---------       ----      -------
> > 	share           Disk      Share Directory
> > 	software        Disk      Location for .msi files to be
> > automatically 
> > installed by AD
> > 	IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Samba 4.15.1-Debian)
> > SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available
> > 
> > 
> > However, one of the shares I set up is inexplicably missing from
> > this
> > list:
> > 
> > [home]
> >     comment = Home Directories
> >     path = /data/home
> >     guest ok = no
> >     browseable = no
> >     writeable = yes
> >     create mask = 0700
> >     directory mask = 0700
> >     follow symlinks = yes
> > 
> > 
> 
> Strange, it should show, I will do some tests

And then as I created the share, I realised what the problem was. You
are telling Samba to not show the share:

browseable = no

Rowland