On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 04:49:19PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > jjrowan wrote: >> A customer has an expanding number of Mac computers. Last Friday and >> existing machine started having problems writing files to a Samba >> share on a CentOS 5.x server. They had no problems prior to Friday. >> They are getting permission failure errors in creating files and >> folders. I made the sare owned by the user and group with group write >> enabled. Even with him as the owner he can not write to the share. I >> stopped / started Samba, same problem. I had him reconnect, same >> problem. Even had him reboot his Mac but problem persists. I ran >> Wireshark traces but the session generates 30 to 40 thousand packets >> and I am unable to find the packets that might pinpoint why he now has >> problems writing to the server. I just ran a yum update of the >> CentOS server and it downloaded samba-common-3.0.33-3.15. I don't >> know if this release fixes my problem. Has anyone else had problems >> with OS/X writing to a Samba share AFTER it's been working for for a >> while (in my case 2 months)? >> > With respect to Mr. Allison, figuring out what changed isn't always > simple. Sometimes it can be something that is only peripherally > connected to Samba, such as a DNS server upgrade.
Sorry, it was a snarky comment and I apologise. I'd just had to talk my brother through a similar "it's all broken and *nothing* changed" tech problem over the phone :-). > In general, the Unix permissions need to be permissive enough to allow > Samba to control the access. You may also want to check that the users > are actually logging on. Try checking the Samba logs to see if there is > a problem being reported. If that doesn't work, set the Samba loglevel > to 10, restart Samba and try again. Good advice, and getting debug level 10 logs will definitely isolate the problem, if you can interpret them. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
