lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> [email protected] writes:
> >>
> >> > lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> [email protected] writes:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hi. I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of my
> >> >> > shares,
> >> >> > I can not access any subfolders of that share. It usually gives me
> >> >> > some
> >> >> > kind of windows permission error, or just location not available.
> >> >> > Windows tells me I can't even display the advanced security settings
> >> >> > for
> >> >> > any folder. Anyone know what they did and how to fix? There is a
> >> >> > hard
> >> >> > blocker to downgrading, so maybe something is up.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >> >>
> >> >> Do they have a changelog which you looked at? Can you mount these
> >> >> shares from a Linux client?
> >> >
> >> > These are on a Linux server, so there is no problem there.
> >>
> >> Can you definitely mount the share from a remote Linux client without
> >> problems?
> >>
> >> > Changelog doesn't say anything but the version number.
> >
> > I don't have any remote linux client and this is samba, used so that
> > windows can access the share.
>
> You could make a copy of everything in the inaccessible share, make a
> new share with settings identical to the settings of the shares that are
> still accessible when copying has finished, and try to access the new
> share with a remote client.
>
> If you can access the new share, either something with the old one is
> weird, or you have changed something like permissions or extended
> attributes by copying.
>
>
> If you cannot access the new share, try a different kernel version (or
> try a different kernel version first). I've had a case in which a
> kernel would freeze/panic when the directory contents of a directory
> that was exported via NFS were displayed with ls on a NFS client.
>
> IIRC samba uses kernel support on the server. Perhaps you have a
> version mismatch between the new samba version and what the kernel
> supports.
The share is my whole system, so obviously I cannot copy to a new
share. I have one share working correctly -- the files under that share
are owned by the user that I am logging in as, so if I log in as root,
you would think I could access everything, so this is very strange.
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