J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 05:11:08 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > > > > lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > > > >> > lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > >> >> cov...@ccs.covici.com 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? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com