LinuxQuestions.org - LVM mounts not showing up in Samba shares

I am running FC4, Samba 3.0.14a-2, and LVM 2.01.08.

LVM is configured and running without issue.

I have configured Samba and I am able to see my server from my PC and my mac and am able to mount shares on both.

However I am unable to mount a share or view any mount points for LVM partitions from within the smb shares.

The main directory I am trying to share is "/data" this is a directory off of my root filesystem (ext3). Within this directory I have mounted several LVM VGs, and one file for testing purposes. The directory structure looks like:

Code:

/data (directory on root)

/data/brian (LVM VG mounted here)

/data/photos (LVM VG mounted here)

/data/test.txt (sample file for testing)

I have also setup a share for /opt just for tesing.

I have one other share setup for /data/brian also for testing.

Now what happens is I can mount the "opt" share from windows or mac & everything looks fine. I can traverse directories, view files etc. Works perfectly.

I can mount the "data" share in windows and mac but the ONLY thing I see in this mount is the test.txt file the two LVM mounts don't show up at all.

If I attempt to mount the "brian" share windows gives me the message that the network provider could not be found. And Mac os just sits there attempting to mount the share & never times out.

I get lines similar to this back from 'dmesg':
smb_add_request: request [cde9be00, mid=50504] timed out!

but I'm not sure if that is related to this issue or just a timeout of one of the smb shares I have mounted on the server using smbclient.

My 'mount' output is (I removed lines unrelated to this issue):

Code:

/dev/sde2 on / type ext3 (rw)

/dev/sde5 on /opt type ext3 (rw)

/dev/mapper/vg-data--brian on /data/brian type ext3 (rw,noatime)

/dev/mapper/vg-photos on /data/photos type ext3 (ro)

Here is my samba.conf:

Code:

[global]

        workgroup = IRK

        log file = /var/log/samba/log.smbd

        security = share

        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

        workgroup = irk

        server string =

[data]

        path = /data

        writeable = yes

        guest ok = yes

        browseable = yes

[brian]

        path = /data/brian

        writeable = yes

        guest ok = yes

        browseable = yes

[opt]

        path = /opt

        writeable = no

        guest ok = yes

        browseable = yes

Log.smbd gives the following output repeatedly, although I'm not too worried about this yet, I'd first like to figure out why the shares don't show up.:

Code:

[2006/03/25 21:51:35, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(204)

  startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was: Permission denied

[2006/03/25 21:51:36, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:add_smbfilepwd_entry(606)

  add_smbfilepwd_entry: unable to open file.

[2006/03/25 21:51:36, 1] auth/auth_sam.c:check_sam_security(291)

  Failed to modify entry.

[2006/03/25 21:51:36, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(642)

  gir (192.168.0.101) connect to service data initially as user nobody (uid=99, gid=99) (pid 29751)

[2006/03/25 21:51:36, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(279)

  startsmbfilepwent_internal: failed to set 0600 permissions on password file /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Permission denied

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
quzax