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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>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 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". 
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>>>
>>>
>>> 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
[username] service associated, do they?
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