Samba Upgrade Issue

[Rick Stevens]

Chris Morton wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Chris Morton wrote:
>>
>>> Over the weekend, I upgraded my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora.
>>>
>>> For the most part, everything runs.  There is a major problem however.
>>>
>>> I was running Samba 2.2.x.  When I did the upgrade, I no longer had 
>>> access to my home directory.
>>>
>>> After finally finding some useful documentation, it appears that 3.x 
>>> is VASTLY different from 2.x.  I THINK the issue relates to LDAP, but 
>>> I don't know anything about LDAP, and I haven't gotten far enough 
>>> into the documentation to make heads or tails of what's really going on.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think you'll find that the difference is in the security.  Samba 2.x
>> used "security = share" by default, 3.x uses "security = user". 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I solved both problems earlier today.
> 
> I use my Samba as a PDC, so I already have "security=user".  The problem 
> was with this line in the [homes] share:
> 
> "valid users = %S"
> 
> Apparently, this is not permitted in Samba 3.x.  Commenting it out 
> solved that problem.

Hmmm.  Interesting.  Did testparm kick the line out?
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