<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I thought an individual smbd got spawned for each connection, and then setuid to the user who was connecting. Perhaps I’m wrong, or out of date.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My next suggestion would be to dig in and figure out how to increase logging verbosity. make sure that /var/log/samba is mode 1777 so if i’m right about the suid bit, each individual smbd will still be able to write there.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 24, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Jim Irrer <<a href="mailto:irrer@umich.edu" class="">irrer@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dan -<br class=""><br class="">I've checked file permissions on the server side and chmod'ed them to 777.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">The smbd is running as root. There will be several different users accessing this,<br class="">so I don't see how it could be run as a regular user.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Not much info, but here's the contents of /var/log/samba/log.smbd . There wasn't anything<br class=""></div>else in the /var/log directory.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-left:40px" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace" class=""><font size="4" class="">[2014/11/24 09:51:38, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:28:11, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:30:53, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:44:56, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:44:56.448058, 0] param/loadparm.c:8004(lp_do_parameter)<br class=""> Global parameter wins support found in service section!<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:45:55, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:45:55.245308, 0] param/loadparm.c:8004(lp_do_parameter)<br class=""> Global parameter wins support found in service section!<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:49:27, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 10:57:29, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 11:36:13, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 11:55:12, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 11:57:53, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:05:01, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:08:31, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:12:36, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:28:23, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:31:41, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 12:34:25, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 13:01:30, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 13:02:16, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 13:43:54, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class="">[2014/11/24 13:44:08, 0] smbd/server.c:1072(main)<br class=""> smbd version 3.6.23-12.el6 started.<br class=""> Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011<br class=""></font></span></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">- Jim<br class=""><br class="">Jim Irrer <a href="mailto:irrer@umich.edu" target="_blank" class="">irrer@umich.edu</a> <a href="tel:%28734%29%20647-4409" value="+17346474409" target="_blank" class="">(734) 647-4409</a><br class="">University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology<br class="">519 W. William St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943</div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Dan Pritts <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:danno@dogcheese.net" target="_blank" class="">danno@dogcheese.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">I presume you have double checked the permissions on the server side. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the smbd running as “irrer”? (which is I think how it should be but I”m not sure)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What does the log file say?</div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Nov 24, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Jim Irrer <<a href="mailto:irrer@umich.edu" target="_blank" class="">irrer@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Howdy -<br class=""><br class=""></div>I'm trying to get a Samba version 3.6.23 server working, and it's about 2% functional. From Windows 7, I mount the <br class=""><div class="">directory with the following command:<br class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-left:40px" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace" class=""><font size="4" class="">net use m: '<a class="">\\141.214.124.93\home'</a> [password] /USER:irrer</font><br class=""></span></div><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Windows I can do a directory list of the /home directory, but nothing else. I can not cat/type a file on<br class=""></div><div class="">Windows, or do a directory listing on any subdirs under /home.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just to eliminate one more source of problems, I have shut off iptables. I don't care about printers, just want<br class="">to access some Linux directories from Windows. The password was set up on Linux with the smbpasswd<br class=""></div><div class="">command, and if I use the wrong one then the mount/'net use' command fails, which confirms proper password<br class="">setup (right?).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">I also have another Samba server 3.0.33 that I set up long ago that works great from the same Windows desktop.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The /etc/samba/smb.config file with comments removed is:<br class=""></div><br class=""><div style="margin-left:40px" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace" class=""><font size="4" class="">[global]<br class=""> workgroup = umhs<br class=""> server string = Samba Server Version %v<br class=""> client signing = Yes<br class=""> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m<br class=""> max log size = 50<br class=""> security = user<br class=""> passdb backend = tdbsam<br class=""> load printers = yes<br class=""> cups options = raw<br class="">[homes] <br class=""> browsable = no<br class=""> map archive = yes<br class="">[home]<br class=""> browseable = yes<br class=""> read only = no<br class=""> path = /home</font><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">- Jim<br class=""><br class="">Jim Irrer <a href="mailto:irrer@umich.edu" target="_blank" class="">irrer@umich.edu</a> <a href="tel:%28734%29%20647-4409" value="+17346474409" target="_blank" class="">(734) 647-4409</a><br class="">University of Michigan Hospital Radiation Oncology<br class="">519 W. William St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943</div></div></div>
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