Samba issues

cooljimy84 · 26 Jul 2010 at 21:39

hi all, another question for you.

I've been using ubuntu for ages now (not hardcore, but for every thing)

i've got a server (in the sense that it's on all the time) running 10.04 LTS 64bit, and i can share any thing on the root drive... however i can't share anything out from any of the other drives !! the folders appear in the network list but i am told "Unable to mount location - Failed to mount windows share" from my other ubuntu 10.04 machine.

the root drive is ext4 and so are all my other drives but it just won't let me browse them, even on a windows machine ! or on the server it's self !

can any one point me in the right direction.

cooljimy84 · 27 Jul 2010 at 08:59

Yes that is how i have shared the folders, i have also used a GUI to edit the Samba file and that has the same issue. I can see the folders but can't mount them (or so it says) but i can share any thing on the root drive...

it's very strange, and nothing seems to show up in the log files either !!

cooljimy84 · 27 Jul 2010 at 12:20

The disks are not in NTFS, they are in ext 3 and ext 4

The root is also in ext 4

cooljimy84 · 3 Aug 2010 at 22:21

james@merc-srv:/media$ ls -la
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2010-07-27 19:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2010-08-03 18:56 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2010-05-11 22:42 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-05-11 22:42 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-04 12:23 The
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-06-15 19:29 The Store
drwx------ 8 james james 4096 2010-05-25 19:34 The_Store_
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-04 01:29 VM
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2010-06-15 19:29 VM Store
drwx------ 6 james james 4096 2010-05-03 23:54 VM_Store_
james@merc-srv:/media$

I'm shareing the ones with the _ in them

cooljimy84 · 6 Aug 2010 at 00:01

They are 2 separate disks (but are software raided through linux)

FSTAB reads
"# The VM store mounting UUID=f4fc9884-9863-cbfd-d90b-0b5685404a30
/dev/md2 /media/VM_Store_ auto defaults 0 0

# The store mounting
/dev/md3 /media/The_Store_ auto defaults 0 0"

cooljimy84 · 8 Aug 2010 at 19:54

Oooo found the log files,

This is trying to browse the shares from the machine they are shared from

"[2010/08/08 19:52:43, 0] smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
canonicalize_connect_path failed for service movies, path /media/The_Store_/Movies"

if thats any help?

cooljimy84 · 9 Aug 2010 at 09:46

Or

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1548593

LOL

yer it was permissions issue, must have happened when i had to take ownership of the disk after it was created on another system...

cooljimy84 · 9 Aug 2010 at 13:47

Yep, wasn't using the guest (as far as i know) however i have just thought that both users on the computer are called James !!!

with diffrent passwords, not sure if that would affect it.