On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 17:50 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Hi, > > quick(?) question: Has anybody seen that problem below? More important > question: Did anybody solve that? > > This is my smb.conf (well, only the most important parts): > > [global] > workgroup = FOOBAR > server string = My Server > map to guest = Bad User > preferred master = No > local master = No > domain master = No > dns proxy = No > > [on3] > comment = Audio-Video-Imports > path = /local/mir/import/on3 > force group = users > read only = No > create mask = 0664 > directory mask = 0775 > guest ok = Yes > > The path has: > > drwxrwxr-x 3 mir users 4096 10. Dez 16:35 /local/mir/import/on3/ > > Meaning: group users and user mir are allowed to write in there. Works > fine from windows clients. Guest user gets mapped to "nobody". > > Doesn't work from linux: > > [root at shutdown ~]# mount -t cifs -o user=nobody,guest //mir-qs/on3 /mnt/tmp/ > mount error 13 = Permission denied > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) > > root at mir-qs:~# uname -a ; rpm -q samba > Linux mir-qs.br.de 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 19 20:05:04 EST > 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > samba-3.0.28-0.el4.9.i386 > > Machine is up to date. > > Error message on the server is > > make_connection: connection to on3 denied due to security descriptor. > > Googling around led me to the belief that someone fooled around with > srvmgr.exe from a windows machine and that I should remove > /var/cache/samba/share_info.tdb and restart samba. Which doesn't work. > > Now if I take out the "force group = users" everything works as > expected. Except that I cannot write in this share - nobody isn't in the > group users. > > I don't want to add nobody to the group users, nor can I go and change > anything on that server regarding users and groups in the file system. > > Ah yes, smbclient works fine, but I really do not want to use that > either. No offense but LOL same problem I had with Linux clients. Here is what I did; The only way I got this to work is add the mount entry to fstab.. auto-mount would not work right it would end up hanging the Linux client. //ethans27/SAN1 /mnt/SAN1 cifs user,uid=500,rw,suid,username=nobody,password=nobody 0 0 BTW I'm forcing the use of a specific user in my smb.conf file. I see you have force group but you may have to include the force users=. One irritating thing I come to find out is the directoru perms have to coexist with whats in your smb.conf. [root at ethan ~]# rpm -q samba samba-3.0.28-1.el5_2.1