I just moved my samba services from a box running RH9 to one running Fedora Core 6. This move involved two parts: I physically moved the internal drive containing the data I shared to a PC client (an ext3-formatted filesystem) and also moved the /etc/samba/smb.conf config file. I then proceeded to share the volume using the version of samba which shipped with FC6.

What's happened is that when I share a directory from the system disk, everything works fine. But when I mount the file system from the second drive over that directory, the PC client can't access it. The PC error message is something to the effect that the "network path was not found".

The stanza from smb.conf is:
[d]
path = /d
writeable = yes
public = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.1.25 192.168.1.26 192.168.1.27
guest ok = yes
guest account = admin

1. If /d is a directory on the system disk, with permissions set to 777, then the PC can read and write in /d via samba. Here's output from df and ls:

# df /d
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 35807336 25607332 8351728 76% /
# ls -ald /d
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:35 /d



2. If I mount the internal drive over /d, again with permissions set to 777, then the PC gets the error above. Here's output from df and ls

#mount /dev/hdd /d
# df /d
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdd 76923000 18879456 54136008 26% /d
# ls -ald /d
drwxrwxrwx 13 root root 4096 Jan 21 13:25 /d


Both the system disk (hda3) and the internal data disk (hdd) are ext3. I do a "service smb restart" before the mount. The mount options for /dev/hdd are the defaults.

When /dev/hdd is mounted on /d, it can be shared in RW mode to other linux clients via NFS with no problems. The local uid "admin" has no problem accessomg the data on /d.


If I set loglevel=3 in the smb.conf, the error message looks like this:

'/d' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [d] Error was Permission denied
[2007/01/21 18:44:44, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2007/01/21 18:44:44, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(69)
Yielding connection to d
[2007/01/21 18:44:44, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(146)
error packet at smbd/reply.c(676) cmd=117 (SMBtconX) NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME



Any ideas would be appreciated.

Is admin the user you are using to connect over SMB?

It appears that I stumbled across the answer. Or perhaps not the answer, but something which works and which requires more complete understanding. The trick was to disable SE for Samba with this command:

/usr/sbin/setsebool -P smbd_disable_trans 1

This nugget was provided by member billybadfoot in this thread:
forums>linus>linux-general>"unable to access files from XP via samba after upgrade to FC6". Look at #8 in this thread, and the supporting references. The more I read, the more I think my problem was just one particular manifestation of problems which SE create for Samba in FC6.

Robert

Ah, the wonderful SELinux. Always trips people up, it seems. That being said, I'm glad you fixed your problems and (every bit as importantly) posted the solution so that others may be helped. For the future reference of you and others, here's the post you referred to above: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...52#post2574152