Re: SAMBA Problems

On 2/18/25 8:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:59:35 -0500, c186282 wrote:
 

SAMBA isn't anything NEW - it SHOULDN'T be this difficult.

 It isn’t. I find when I test things with smbclient, they usually work.
 It’s invariably the Windows clients that cause problems.

   In this exact case, it's Linux clients.
   Tried and tries, checked smb,conf against recent
   examples, checked /etc/groups, checked permissions
   and ownership. Just WON'T work.
   As said, I used SAMBA in a mixed environment for
   many many years. Then, decidedly by bookworm,
   SOMETHING nasty changed. This is terrible.
   Did NFS shares instead. Don't love NFS, SAMBA
   offers much more fine-grained options and
   more nuanced security. If this was a work
   environment I'd be even more upset - but
   this is a 'home' system now that I've retired
   and Vlad probably ain't looking.
   Anyway, a root @reboot runs a script that mounts
   the /dev/sdx USBs. They DO show up where they
   are supposed to be. Liberal permissions. SAMBA
   just CAN'T share them properly, nothing but
   permission errors on the client no matter how I
   set things - and I've used Linux since 'X' was
   introduced (no fun setting mouse/keyboard/mon
   back then) on floppies.
   Dunno WHAT the hell they changed, but it's not
   documented worth a damn.