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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: SAMBA Problems
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:52:45 +0000
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On 18/02/2025 06:44, c186282 wrote:
> On 2/18/25 1:06 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:58:51 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>> Would-be clients can see the server. Can see the shares. However
>>> trying to ACCESS the shares by 'mount cifs' or any other means
>>> always results in either a blank, or usually some species of
>>> 'permission denied'.
>>
>> Turn on some more of the server-side logging options, to see if that 
>> gives
>> some clues.
> 
>    Worth a try.
> 
>    However those logs tend to be SO detailed that
>    the needed Truth gets buried.
> 
>    But I'll give it a shot.
> 
>    Anyway, this issue appeared late in Bullseye
>    and is now endemic in Bookworm. SOMETHING
>    changed. Required group memberships ???

It may be that samba daemon is running with restricted permissions and 
cannot access a user mounted drive system

One user reports:

apt-get install samba-vfs-modules

fixes this issue

It seems the default config may require bits not installed by default.


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