[6.9.0] Samba [homes] stopped working after upgrading to 6.9.0

Okay, digging into the samba code verified my suspicion,

user home location needs to be specified at passwd for [homes] to work

changing `/etc/passwd` to have home directory pointing at `/mnt/user/homes/<username here>`
and restarting the samba service with `/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart` allowed me to access the share without issues,
now to do that for all users at `/boot/config/passwd` and I guess the issue is resolved for me for now, and anyone having this issue will hopefully find this post useful.

This is a feature request.

hi sorry to disturb but a question from a amateur-linux guy,

so every user for share´s does need to be in the right directory in etc/passwd right?
How is this for Active Directory integration?
My secondary Server does have 6.9.0 now and i can´t even make a public smb-share since 6.9.0.... in 6.8.3 all is fine
Maybe im missing something or its a whole other issue..
 
Regards

Xutho

1 hour ago, Xutho said:

hi sorry to disturb but a question from a amateur-linux guy,

so every user for share´s does need to be in the right directory in etc/passwd right?
How is this for Active Directory integration?
My secondary Server does have 6.9.0 now and i can´t even make a public smb-share since 6.9.0.... in 6.8.3 all is fine
Maybe im missing something or its a whole other issue..
 
Regards

Xutho

 

Specifically a Samba [homes] share (it is special type of share) seems to requires user to have home folder defined yes,

not sure why it didn't in 6.8.3 and requires now, but checking the source code, that's how it is now.

 

Alternatively you can specify in a samba config a share that's not using [homes] functionality:

[home]
    comment = %U home directory
    path = /mnt/user/<share name>/%U
    valid users = %S
    browsable = no
    writable = yes
    create mask = 0700
    directory mask = 0700

 

When it comes to AD, honestly no idea.

@ Auxilium

thanks for the explanation but what  defines a "home-share"?
Is just try to share via web-gui a folder and i have no access.... or is this a "home-share"?

 

Home share is mapped to a specific user folder, 

for example when User1 connects to \\server\homes

it will be automatically accessing /mnt/user/homes/User2 if /mnt/user/homes is set as path

You can read more here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows_User_Home_Folders

got it thanks

seems to be i have a different issue  i have the issue with all smb shares 
but good to know about home shares  


many thanks

Xutho

10 minutes ago, Xutho said:

i have a different issue

 

I suggest you create a new thread in General Help and include your diagnostics.