10.04 Samba - Strange issues

[Plasma_NZ]

Ok here's the story, have a few pc's on the network, including a ps2 running SMS player via SMB shares.... Now it all ran perfectly till i decided to upgrade to 10.04 lucid..

Basically, pc's can access all folders shared form this pc apart from one...

here's my smb.conf

[global]
    ; General server settings
    netbios name = physics
    server string =
    workgroup = phy101
    announce version = 5.0
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

    passdb backend = tdbsam
    security = user
    null passwords = true
    ;username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
    name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

    usershare owner only = False

    wins support = yes

    printing = CUPS
    printcap name = CUPS

    syslog = 1
    syslog only = yes


[Auxiliary_5]
    path = /media/S2/Storage/Dump/
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = physics

[Auxiliary_4]
    path = /media/S4/Media_Library_4/
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = physics

[Auxiliary_3]
    path = /media/S3/Media_Library_3/
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = physics

[Auxiliary_2]
    path = /media/S2/Media_Library_2/
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = physics

[Auxiliary_1]
    path = /media/S1/Media_Library_1/
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = no
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755
    force user = physics

[Ps2]
    path = /media/S1/ps2
    browseable = yes
    read only = yes
    guest ok = yes
    create mask = 0644
    directory mask = 0755

Now that works in 9.10 - and the ps2 could access that one folder without any problems.... But in 10.04 it cant access the ps2 folder despite settings for guest ok, and no force-user or group..

i get a log error

Jun 17 23:19:19 physics smbd[6124]: [2010/06/17 23:19:19,  0] smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
Jun 17 23:19:19 physics smbd[6124]:   canonicalize_connect_path failed for service ps2, path /media/S1/ps2

No idea wtf is going on or how to fix, all hdd's are ntfs - mounted use ntfs-3g - and the folders they have been mounted into are chmod 0777..

Would really like to resolve this pronto.

[Morbius1]

With just a quick look at this I have a couple of observations:

(1) Nautilus-share
You have one line in your smb.conf that controls how Nautilus-share uses samba to share files:

    usershare owner only = False

It's possible that you have a share definition for the ps2 target using nautilus-share that differs from the one defined in smb.conf. The output of one of the following commands will tell you if that is true:

net usershare info
sudo net usershare info

(2) Guest Access.
You appear to missing a line in smb.conf that enables a remote user to become a guest:

   map to guest = bad user

you need to add that back because the default is "map to guest = never" which means it will never convert an unauthenticated remote user to the guest account.

[Plasma_NZ]

Ok, thanks for the fast response, but it turns out my issue was fstab related....

i have changed the mount options as follows

#HDD 1
/dev/sda5 /media/S1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

That fixed all my issues...