Re: Samba Problem - Almost there

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On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:00 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:37 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:45 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> >>>> OK, I'm not sure what change did it, but I can connect to *SOME* of my
> >>>> shares. I have one more that I can't seem to connect to. The definition
> >>>> in smb.conf is
> >>>>
> >>>> 	[windows]
> >>>> 	case sensitive = no
> >>>> 	msdfs proxy = no
> >>>> 	read only = no
> >>>> 	comment = windows directory
> >>>> 	path = /windows
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This is the vfat partition holding my windows setup. The fstab entry
> >>>> makes the partition readable / writable by anyone. When I try to attach
> >>>> this partition, I get a "The Network Name Cannot be found."
> >>>>
> >>>> Obviously, the windows box knows about the name as it displays it for me
> >>>> to select - and the setup looks right to me. What am I missing?
> >>> ----
> >>> possibly selinux block - is selinux active?
> >> No. I'd read enough on the list not to trust it, so I disabled it during
> >> install.
> >>
> >>> is the share visible if you try from the linux client...
> >>>
> >>> smbclient -L NETBIOS_NAME
> >> Yes, I can see it in that display - remember that it's visible on the
> >> windows machine, too ... I just can't attach it.
> >>
> >>> does executing...
> >>>
> >>> testparm -s
> >>>
> >>> reveal any errors?
> >> No errors.
> >>
> >> ...at least I haven't done anything *OBVIOUS* <g> Part of me hates it
> >> when that happens - another part likes it cause it leads to a quick
> >> solution.
> > ----
> > one would think that the error should be logged in /var/log/messages
> > then.
> > 
> >>From a command line on Linux (without Windows or samba), can you
> > access /windows as root?  as a user? do files show up when you do things
> > like 'ls' or 'ls -l' ?
> > 
> > does it show up as mounted?
> > 
> > command to show active mounts....
> > 
> > 'mount'
> 
> >From the linux machine, I can do anything I want with /windows as user
> or root. Read - write, browse, whatever. I wasn't surprised to see it
> listed when I ran mount - it's there.
----
then the only thing that I can think of is that a Windows FAT partition mounts as a particular user and if you are trying to share it with 'samba' - the issue is that there might be a conflict between the user trying to use it and and the 'local' user who has the mount.

bear in mind that POSIX attributes are not available on a FAT volume mount and I have to wonder if something isn't being logged somewhere, either in /var/log/messages or /var/log/samba/smbd.log or /var/log/samba/log.smbd that provides a clue.

I can't say that I've ever tried to share a VFAT or NTFS volume via samba before and I don't know the consequences of that.

Craig



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