Samba Upgrade Issue

[Chris Morton]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Chris Morton wrote:
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>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>> Chris Morton wrote:
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>>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>> Chris Morton wrote:
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>>>>>> Over the weekend, I upgraded my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora.
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>>>>>> For the most part, everything runs.  There is a major problem 
>>>>>> however.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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". 
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>>>> Thanks for your reply.
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>>>> I solved both problems earlier today.
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>>>> I use my Samba as a PDC, so I already have "security=user".  The 
>>>> problem was with this line in the [homes] share:
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>>>> "valid users = %S"
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>>>> Apparently, this is not permitted in Samba 3.x.  Commenting it out 
>>>> solved that problem.
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>>> Hmmm.  Interesting.  Did testparm kick the line out?
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>> Nope.
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> Hmmm.  Then it's still valid.  Do the Windows users have a Linux
> account or mapped via a usermap.cfg file?  They don't have an individual 

All users have a Linux account.

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> [username] service associated, do they? 

No.

Thanks.