Samba Upgrade Issue

[Chris Morton]

Rick Stevens wrote:

> 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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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm.  Interesting.  Did testparm kick the line out?
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>>>>
>>>> Nope.
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>>>
>>> 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 
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>> All users have a Linux account.
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>>> [username] service associated, do they? 
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>> No.
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> I guess I have some reading to do.

I printed out the 3.0 docs from samba.org.  They're over 400 pages.