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Re: Re: Samba help.

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>     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

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Samba help. "R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net> - 2017-01-29 09:30 +0100
  Re: Samba help. John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-29 20:30 +0100
    Re: Samba help. John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-29 20:40 +0100
      Re: Re: Samba help. "R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net> - 2017-01-30 07:50 +0100
      Re: Re: Samba help. "R. Ramesh" <rramesh@verizon.net> - 2017-02-02 03:30 +0100
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