[lug] Samba issues after Deb Lenny upgrade

[John Starkey]

John Starkey wrote:
> Google doesn't appear to know much about this and I'm in a pinch so I 
> thought I'd send out a quick check. Does anyone know of anything that's 
> changed in the latest Deb Lenny version of samba:
>
> ii  samba                                  2:3.2.5-4lenny6
>
>  That would cause:
>
> tail /var/log/samba/[snip]
> [2009/10/11 12:26:53,  0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(1156)
>   '/vz/root' does not exist or permission denied when connecting to 
> [development] Error was Permission denied
>
> This was working until I unmounted it today and there was a samba 
> upgrade yesterday.
>
>  From the mount machine:
>
> mount error 6 = No such device or address
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
>
> The config hasn't changed in years and is working on other machines that 
> haven't been upgraded yet.
>   
Haven't gotten this fixed and won't be attempting too soon, but in case 
anyone stumbles across this:

I was mounting a directory owned by a daemon. When I tried $HOME it 
worked. So it appears samba has changed the way they handle mount 
permissions in the version above.

John