On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:54:04AM +1300, Cameron Rangeley wrote: > I am running two RHEL boxes, each day I am rsyncing some data from my primary > server to my secondary server, the secondary server will be activated in a DR > situation. > > I am rsyncing the entire /home partition. > > On my primary server there are about 8 samba shares for data that the clients > can access all the samba shares point to various sub-directories within > /home. My issue is that on my secondary server I cant connect to the shares > from a windows workstation. > > My smb.conf file is the same as my primary server and to test I have created > a test mount in /mnt/test and I can connect to that fine. It appears that > the issue is all around the fact that these directories that have been > created with rsync. > > My rsync command is: rsync -arzgopulv --delete /home [email protected]:/
-a implies -r and -p (among others) so that's redundant. > My smbd.log file says: '/home/folder/folder/folder does not exist or > permission denied when connecting to [folder] Error was Permission denied. > > I can see the folder in samba I have forced the user as root and I have > chmodded the folder to 777. Access from the console to these files and > folders works fine. > > Has anyone got any other ideas that I can try? ACL problem maybe? If you use posix ACLs then rsync -A will transfer those too. If you store ACL info in a samba database, you will have to transfer that somehow. -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
