Re: [Samba] Can't connect to smb share that's a mounted file system

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:33 -0600, Mike Hanby wrote:
> Howdy y'all, I have a new partition, /dev/hdc1 that's ext3 formatted.
> # mkfs.ext3 -L /backup /dev/hdc1
>
> Then added it to /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/backup /backup ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> As you can see I'm mounting the file system into directory /backup
>
> My smb.conf file has the following settings:
>
> security = share
>
> [netfiles]
> comment = Network file storage space
> path = /backup
> read only = no
> public = yes
>
> Now, before mounting /dev/hdc1, I can connect to the share from my XP system
> using: \\smbmachine\netfiles
>
> Then, I mount the file system to /backup: mount /dev/hdc1 and try to
> connect: \\smbmachine\netfiles
>
> This time XP either prompts me for a GUEST password, or I get an error
> "\\smbmachine\netfiles is not accessible."
>
> Here's the permissions:
>
> /backup directory before mounting /dev/hdc1 into it:
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 17:27 /backup
>
> Now, I mount /dev/hdc1 to /backup and here's the permissions
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 12 17:31 /backup
>
> Any idea why I can browse into the netfiles share from my XP machine when
> /backup is just a directory, but not after mounting /dev/hdc1 to it?
>
> Thanks for any help, Mike
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check the [netfiles] 'path' property

\path is Windows pathing
/path is UNIX/Linux pathing

samba is reading a UNIX/Linux path and so it is wrong...

try 'testparm -s -v |less' to check for errors.

Craig


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