On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:00 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:37 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:45 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>>>> OK, I'm not sure what change did it, but I can connect to *SOME* of
my
>>>> shares. I have one more that I can't seem to connect to. The
definition
>>>> in smb.conf is
>>>>
>>>> [windows]
>>>> case sensitive = no
>>>> msdfs proxy = no
>>>> read only = no
>>>> comment = windows directory
>>>> path = /windows
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is the vfat partition holding my windows setup. The fstab entry
>>>> makes the partition readable / writable by anyone. When I try to attach
>>>> this partition, I get a "The Network Name Cannot be found."
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, the windows box knows about the name as it displays it for
me
>>>> to select - and the setup looks right to me. What am I missing?
>>> ----
>>> possibly selinux block - is selinux active?
>> No. I'd read enough on the list not to trust it, so I disabled it during
>> install.
>>
>>> is the share visible if you try from the linux client...
>>>
>>> smbclient -L NETBIOS_NAME
>> Yes, I can see it in that display - remember that it's visible on the
>> windows machine, too ... I just can't attach it.
>>
>>> does executing...
>>>
>>> testparm -s
>>>
>>> reveal any errors?
>> No errors.
>>
>> ...at least I haven't done anything *OBVIOUS* <g> Part of me hates it
>> when that happens - another part likes it cause it leads to a quick
>> solution.
> ----
> one would think that the error should be logged in /var/log/messages
> then.
>
>>From a command line on Linux (without Windows or samba), can you
> access /windows as root? as a user? do files show up when you do things
> like 'ls' or 'ls -l' ?
>
> does it show up as mounted?
>
> command to show active mounts....
>
> 'mount'
>From the linux machine, I can do anything I want with /windows as user
or root. Read - write, browse, whatever. I wasn't surprised to see it
listed when I ran mount - it's there.
----
then the only thing that I can think of is that a Windows FAT partition mounts as a
particular user and if you are trying to share it with 'samba' - the issue is that
there might be a conflict between the user trying to use it and and the 'local'
user who has the mount.
bear in mind that POSIX attributes are not available on a FAT volume mount and I have to
wonder if something isn't being logged somewhere, either in /var/log/messages or
/var/log/samba/smbd.log or /var/log/samba/log.smbd that provides a clue.
I can't say that I've ever tried to share a VFAT or NTFS volume via samba before
and I don't know the consequences of that.
Craig