[Samba] User shares do not appear anymore

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jan 26 18:42:53 UTC 2023



On 26/01/2023 17:44, Gabriele Bulfon via samba wrote:
> Hi, I have an Ubuntu system with samba 4 that did work perfectly until this morning.
> Normal shares in smb.conf appeared as always, while user shares included with %U did not anymore.
> This is the global part of smb.conf:
> 
>          security = user
>          username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>          include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%U
>          include = /etc/samba/smb.conf.%m
>   
> There are then various smb.conf.[username] with custom shares for the user.
> They always did work, but now they're completely ignored.
> I find this in the log:
>   
> [2023/01/26 18:35:35.817936,  0] ../../source3/param/loadparm.c:3431(process_usershare_file)
>    process_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/p failed. Permission denied
>   
> And /var/lib/samba/usershares is fine:
> 
> drwxrwx--T 2 root sambashare 4096 Jan 26 16:44 usershares
>   
> And all the path to both usershares and the real user share dir has normal permissions, never changed.
>   
> No update to the system, nothing.
> No user, no windows version, not even smbclient can list the user shares.
>   
> Can you help?
> Gabriele
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This has been fixed in 4.17.5 (just released).
See: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15243

It has been backported to 4.16 and presumably Ubuntu will back port it 
to their supported Samba versions (where relevant)

Rowland




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