Hi,
I had a further related problem - MS Office files could not be opened by
double-clicking them on the network shares - Word or Excel froze. I
assume it was having problems creating the lock files, though
LibreOffice opened them fine and all other file types seemed to open OK
in their respective applications. As I use MS Office quite a lot I
needed to get it working somehow.
I have found a solution, or rather a work-around..... remove Samba 3.x
and install Samba 4.x. Below are the steps that work for me, though
whether every step is needed I'm not sure.
That doesn't answer why the newer version of Samba 3 had problems
though, but as it works I'm not that bothered. :)
Paul.
service smb stop
service nmb stop
cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.safe
yum remove samba samba-client samba-common
yum install samba4 samba4-client samba4-common
mv /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.bak
cp /etc/samba/smb.conf.safe /etc/samba/smb.conf
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
# remove the "security = share" line
smbpasswd -a paul
smbpasswd -a www
chkconfig smb on
chkconfig nmb on
service smb start
service nmb start
On 29/10/2014 10:39, Paul Stenning wrote:
Hi,
I am having an issue accessing Samba shares on CentOS servers from
Windows 7 PCs after updating CentOS from 6.5 to 6.6 (using yum update).
This is my /etc/samba/smb.conf file
# Global Settings
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = share
map to guest = bad user
netbios name = SPTECH
# Share Definitions
[www]
writable = yes
path = /var/www/html
force group = www
guest ok = yes
force user = www
browsable = yes
create mode = 777
directory mode = 777
[work]
writable = yes
path = /home/work
force group = root
guest ok = yes
force user = root
browsable = yes
create mode = 777
directory mode = 777
With CentOS 6.5 on the server the server name is shown in "Network" in
Windows 7 and when opened the individual shares ("www" and "work") are
shown and can be accessed as expected.
With CentOS 6.6 on the server the server name is still shown in
"Network" but when opening it there is a long delay and then an error
saying "The RPC server is too busy to complete this operation".
It is still possible to map network drives manually as \\sptech\www or
whatever in Windows, and access the files on them as normal. It is
just the network browsing in Windows Explorer that does not work after
the upgrade to CentOS 6.6.
I have both versions of CentOS in VirtualBox machines and on physical
machines, and have tried from two different Windows 7 PCs, and the
issue is consistent and repeatable.
Checking Samba versions with smbd -V
CentOS 6.5 = 3.6.9-169.el6_5
CentOS 6.6 = 3.6.23-12.el6
Does anyone have any ideas, please? Perhaps something I can add to
smb.conf to get it behaving again, or log files I can check for clues
etc? These are server installations so bash console only (no GUI). I
have a basic working knowledge but an certainly not an expert.
Is there already a known issue reported somewhere and I just need to
wait for a fix? I don't know where to look for that info.
Thank you!
Paul
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