[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#429767: samba: A Samba share named "share" is quietly invalid.

[Jesse Molina]

User shara is a legit user account name which has been used long-term. 
The share fails in the same way with a completely different non-root 
user account as well, so I don't think it's a user-specific issue.

I do realize that there does not appear to be any failures in the log 
files.  I turned logging up to 10 and then trolled through it and still 
didn't find anything that I thought was suspicious or unusual.

The failure is that the share can not be accessed in any way 
(apparently), though it is listed as a valid share on the serving host. 
  I can't browse it from a Windows XP system, and a remote SMB mount 
from another Linux host fails as soon as I upgrade -- while other shares 
continue to work just fine.

Got any other ideas?  I'm stumped -- that's why I opened the bug.  =)



Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Jesse Molina (jesse at opendreams.net):
>> Attached are logs.  Please let me know if I screwed anything up or you 
>> need more info.
>>
>> Same problem as before.  I upgraded and the "share" share fails.  After 
>> downgrading, everything is fine again.
>>
>> In the log files, I simply started up the new samba processes, tried to 
>> connect to the share via a WinXP system, which failed, and then shortly 
>> thereafter shut samba down.
> 
> From the logs, it does not fail:
> 
> Jun 27 01:04:08 sorrows smbd[4290]:   aspiration (192.168.0.11) connect to service share initially as user shara (uid=1000, gid=104) (pid
> +4290)
> 
> I actually see nothing that looks like an error in the logs.
> 
> What is exactly failing?
> 
> I suspect somethign really weird related to the fact that the username
> is "shara". Can you just try connecting with another username?
> 
> 

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