Hello,

I am having issues re-establishing a connection to a samba drive. The server had to be power cycled and afterward samba connections are being refused. Errors are of the form:

[root@angel samba]# uname -a
[2008/06/17 17:32:05, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003)
'/home/public' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [sharedata] Error was Permission denied
[2008/06/17 17:32:20, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003)
'/home/public' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [sharedata] Error was Permission denied
[2008/06/17 17:32:20, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003)
'/home/public' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [sharedata] Error was Permission denied
[2008/06/17 17:32:29, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1003)
'/home/tkimber' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to [tkimber] Error was Permission denied

Os and machine info below:

[root@angel samba]# uname -a
Linux angel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen #1 SMP Tue May 20 10:31:46 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

smb.conf is below:

[root@angel samba]# cat smb.conf
# Defining domain name, hostname
####################################################
[global]
workgroup = ALTIO
netbios name = angel
server string = Altio File Server
interfaces = lo eth0
#hosts allow = 127. 192.168. 10.

local master = no
os level = 33
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

# Specifying printing subsystem
####################################################
#printcap name = cups
#printing = cups

# Defining logging facility
####################################################
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
log level = 2
#passdb:5 auth:10
max log size = 50

# Defining security policies
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam

# Defining user home directories
####################################################
[homes]
comment = %U Home Directory
path = %H
valid users = %U
writeable = Yes
browseable = No

[sharedata]
comment = Integra SP - ShareData
path = /home/public
#valid users = %S
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0770
force create mode = 0770
directory mask = 0770
force directory mode = 0770
browseable = Yes

#[kiev]
#comment = Integra SP - kiev
#path = /home/public/altio/Testing
#read only = No
#browseable = No

Not sure where to look, but have tried:

restarting samba

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

and changing mode to 777 on the directory I am trying to access

I can see it is not a password issue:

[2008/06/17 17:10:24, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(309)
check_ntlm_password: authentication for user [tkimber] -> [tkimber] -> [tkimber] succeeded

No config changes were made to either the server or client (Vista). Any pointer would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Tim

I know this is an old issue, but there doesn't seem to be a reply and this is showing up on top of Google. You may need to check the security context of your files if you have the permissions setup properly from chmod.

will give you the security context. Typically samba shares should have a type context of samba_share_t

Of course, if you need another context this may not work for you. I highly discourage putting SELinux into permissive mode to solve a problem like this.