Samba Upgrade Issue

[Rick Stevens]

Chris Morton wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>> Chris Morton wrote:
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>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>> Chris Morton wrote:
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>>>>> Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>>> Chris Morton wrote:
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>>>>>>> Over the weekend, I upgraded my server from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the most part, everything runs.  There is a major problem 
>>>>>>> however.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was running Samba 2.2.x.  When I did the upgrade, I no longer 
>>>>>>> had access to my home directory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After finally finding some useful documentation, it appears that 
>>>>>>> 3.x is VASTLY different from 2.x.  I THINK the issue relates to 
>>>>>>> LDAP, but I don't know anything about LDAP, and I haven't gotten 
>>>>>>> far enough into the documentation to make heads or tails of 
>>>>>>> what's really going on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you'll find that the difference is in the security.  Samba 
>>>>>> 2.x
>>>>>> used "security = share" by default, 3.x uses "security = user". 
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>>>
>>>>> I solved both problems earlier today.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use my Samba as a PDC, so I already have "security=user".  The 
>>>>> problem was with this line in the [homes] share:
>>>>>
>>>>> "valid users = %S"
>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently, this is not permitted in Samba 3.x.  Commenting it out 
>>>>> solved that problem.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.  Interesting.  Did testparm kick the line out?
>>>
>>> Nope.
>>
>> Hmmm.  Then it's still valid.  Do the Windows users have a Linux
>> account or mapped via a usermap.cfg file?  They don't have an individual 
> 
> All users have a Linux account.
> 
>>
>> [username] service associated, do they? 
> 
> No.

I guess I have some reading to do.
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