[Samba] vfs_shadow_copy2 cannot read/find snapshots

[Nick Couchman]

On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 9:32 AM Sebastian Neustein via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexander
>
> # net conf delparm projects shadow:snapprefix
> does not change a thing. The error persists. (I killed my smb session
> before trying again).
>
> log still says:
> [2023/05/22 15:23:23.324179,  1]
> ../../source3/modules/vfs_shadow_copy2.c:2222(shadow_copy2_get_shadow_copy_data)
>    shadow_copy2_get_shadow_copy_data: SMB_VFS_NEXT_OPEN failed for
> '/srv/glvol_samba/admin/projects/.snaps' - Permission denied
>
> I had it working before and had some trouble with these two parameters
> aswell.  Thank you for the hint.
>

Are you running a system that has SELinux enabled and enforcing?

-Nick