On 1/29/2017 11:25 AM, John Darrah wrote:
On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote:
I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden
all samba guest access to this box stopped working. I did not
update smb.conf file any time before or after. I vaguely
remember that there was a flash of notes flying by when samba
was upgraded, but do not recall what it is. BTW, I can mount
if I provide an actual valid user with password. Only guest
access does not work. Linux host 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP
Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux
Samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2
Guest access to the following share fails after the upgrade:
[data]
path = /data
create mask = 0755
directory mask = 0755
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
If it is not too much trouble, please copy me your responses
Thanks
Ramesh
Check to see that smb.conf was not replaced. If it was, the
previous version will be called smb.conf.dpkg-dist or
smb.conf.ucf-dist. You will have to compare them with your
smb.conf file and merge any differences.
-- john
Also check the following in [global] settings:
Change:
map to guest = Bad User
to:
map to guest = nobody
-- john
Thanks for your help.
I remember that apt-get asked if I wanted my smb.conf to be replaced.
I said "no." Quick tkdiff between smb.conf and dist version shows that
I miss these
server role = standalone server
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
Of course, I will fix the second line and add all three and see what
happens.
Ramesh
Adding the three lines with "bad user" replaced by "nobody" prevents
nmbd from being restarted. It fails to restart and the syslong shows
that it does not like nobody and commenting out the line allows restart
of service. However I do not have guest mount permitted as before.
I tried putting a valid user instead of nobody and nmbd does not like
that either. So, I am lost.
Ramesh
