Re: has anyone successfully accessed a windows share with samba > 3.0.2

[Josh Kelley <josh jbc edu>]

Alois Treindl wrote:

> I am unable to access windows shares mounted from Win2003 with 
> smbmount since I updated samba on RHEL to the current version 3.0.7. 
> the last samba version which works is 3.0.2
>
> the mount works, but all access file with 'permissioon denied'
>
> reverting to samba 3.0.2 immediately solved the problem.
>
> Has anyone successfully accessed windows shares with samba 3.0.7 ?

This sounds similar to a problem I had with accessing Samba shares from 
Fedora using smbmount.  Apparently recent versions of smbmount will try 
to map usernames and groups rather than (necessarily) observing the UID 
and GID parameters to smbmount.  Adding local users and groups that 
match those on the server fixed my problem.  You should be able to check 
if this is happening to you by doing a ls -l and looking for numeric 
(and therefore unknown) users and groups.

Hope this helps.

Josh Kelley