FC4 Samba only shares some files, not others...

Gareth Howlett gareth.howlett at pivotalsys.com
Thu Mar 29 18:17:44 UTC 2007


I can't share /home on FC4, smbd doesn't think it exists!

(I blanked-out workgroup below - it is actually set but we'll leave that
out of it 'cause this isn't a domain/workgroup problem and server string
isn't worth worrying about)

Here's the config...
[root at whistler samba]# cat smb.conf
[global]
        workgroup = *******
        security = share
        log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        dns proxy = No
        server string =
        encrypt passwords = no
        guest ok = yes

[Junk]
        comment = Whistler Build Directory
        path = /home
;       writeable = no
        guest ok = yes
        browseable = yes


Here's the log file error...
[root at whistler samba]# tail -2 samba.log
[2007/03/29 09:23:51, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(615)
  '/home' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to
[Junk]


As you can see, /home does exist.
[root at whistler samba]# ls /
bin  boot  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  media  misc  mnt  net  opt
proc  root  sbin  selinux  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var


The really weird thing is if I share-up "/", it works but I see about
1/2 the stuff that is actually in / (eg, I see /dev but not /home or
/bin).  This is very puzzling to me - usually samba is binary; it works
or it doesn't... not working with some directories and not others...

Anyone have any ideas?

- Gareth





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