J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 05:11:08 PM [email protected] wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not necessarily, samba doesn't allow root automatically access to everything.
OK, thanks, what are the conditions for that, or where can I find them
out?
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