problem with samba...

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Wed Dec 13 08:46:14 UTC 2006


Today David Timms did spake thusly:

>> Samba stopped working *before* I deleted and recreated the group, that's 
>> why I did it.
> # rpm -q fedora-release
> # rpm -qa|grep samba
> # grep samba /var/log/yum*

FC6 with the latest samba
samba-3.0.23c-2
samba-common-3.0.23c-2
samba-client-3.0.23c-2
  ~]# grep samba /var/log/yum*
/var/log/yum.log.1:Oct 27 08:37:09 Erased: samba
/var/log/yum.log.1:Oct 27 08:37:14 Erased: samba-swat
/var/log/yum.log.1:Oct 27 08:38:57 Installed: samba.i386 3.0.23c-2
/var/log/yum.log.2:Sep 27 04:47:05 Updated: samba-common.i386 
3.0.23c-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.2:Sep 27 04:47:21 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.23c-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.2:Sep 27 04:48:10 Updated: samba-swat.i386 3.0.23c-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.2:Sep 27 04:48:15 Updated: samba-client.i386 
3.0.23c-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.2:Oct 25 00:32:03 Updated: samba-common.i386 3.0.23c-2
/var/log/yum.log.2:Oct 25 00:40:05 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.23c-2
/var/log/yum.log.2:Oct 25 00:42:49 Updated: samba-swat.i386 3.0.23c-2
/var/log/yum.log.2:Oct 25 00:46:26 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.23c-2
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 18 08:39:40 Updated: samba-common.i386 3.0.23-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 18 08:40:17 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.23-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 18 08:41:17 Updated: samba-client.i386 3.0.23-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 18 08:43:09 Updated: samba-swat.i386 3.0.23-1.fc5
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 27 04:58:52 Updated: samba-common.i386 
3.0.23a-1.fc5.1
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 27 04:59:14 Updated: samba.i386 3.0.23a-1.fc5.1
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 27 05:01:36 Updated: samba-client.i386 
3.0.23a-1.fc5.1
/var/log/yum.log.3:Jul 27 05:01:59 Updated: samba-swat.i386 
3.0.23a-1.fc5.1


>> Which I've done. Any other ideas?
> The @group is not working in fc6's current version.
> smb.conf:
> A name starting with a '@' is interpreted as an NIS netgroup first (if your 
> system supports NIS), and then as a UNIX group if the name was not found in 
> the NIS netgroup database.
>
> But there is a weird thing with nis where it is failing, and hence never 
> giving smb useful results.
>
> You can
> - in /etc/samba/smb/conf change the @ to + {look in unix groups first}

write list = +users
This just gives me "permission denied" when I try and 
write...

> or
> - in /etc/nsswitch.conf set netgroup:  files  {which worked for me}

This didn't work either. Permission denied. The directory in question has 
775 perms.

This is all a red herring though, if I change the group in question to be 
"wheel" then it all works correctly. So partly fixed, but no idea why my 
"users" group has suddenly stopped working...

Why would a group created using system-config-users a) not show up when I 
type "groups" and am a member of it and b) not appear to samba, the 
filesystem appears to see it fine...and it appears in /etc/groups and 
/etc/gshadow

>
> There is some similar bugs such as
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3741
> but their resolution is noted as 3.0.23b, and fc6 uses 3.0.23c
>
> DaveT.
>
>

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