Cannot mount Samba share from Ubuntu or Android

[HermanAB]

"The 'NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED' error is telling me I have authenticated but are not allowed to do what I am attempting ." - Yes, I also think that you have a permission problem. The username and password authentication works, but Samba is not allowed to provide access to the working directory by the underlying filesystem. You can try to make the directory and the files in it wide open to prove it with 'chmod 777 pathtodirectory'. Note that the system can also be blocked by SELinux or AppArmor if you have one of those active.

[evinrude]

Good news I got it to work
Bad news I have no idea what I'm doing differently .

[evinrude]

Someone please explain this .
If I name the share [linuxshare] or [share] I cannot access it . If I name it [MyStuff] it works fine .

I'm not making this up .

[TheFu]

Last time I looked at using Android as a Samba client, it seemed that most of the non-paid Samba clients were using weak NT1 authentication. These days, it is easier to crack that sort of authentication than it is to look up the credentials and type them in. Of course, YMMV.

Glad you got something working. Sad you don't know why. When stuff like that happens to me - perhaps once a year - it drives me crazy. Last week had it happen when trying to get NFS as a client working from inside a linux container. It didn't work and I stepped away for some dinner, then came back and it was working. No clue why.

[evinrude]

But I did figure it out , See my post from above .

[Morbius1]

Since you introduced webmin into this I suggesting posting the output of the following commands so the folks here can see how you are currently set up:

testparm -s

net usershare info --long

[ActionParsnip]

If you SSH to the system to manage it then you can mount SFTP. AndFTP in Android can do this and it connects on port 22. Nice and easy. This will sidestep the issue.

[evinrude]

But I did figure it out , See my post from above .

[evinrude]

reproduced the issue from linux cli

with the share name set to [share] I get this

neon@linux-desktop:~$ smbclient '\\10.10.10.249\share'
Enter OLLIE\neon's password:
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

With the share name set to [MyStuff] it works


neon@linux-desktop:~$ smbclient '\\10.10.10.249\MyStuff'
Enter OLLIE\neon's password:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> l
. D 0 Sun Oct 10 17:38:54 2021
.. D 0 Wed Sep 8 11:19:03 2021
Screenshot_20211010-144209_X-plore.jpg A 169689 Sun Oct 10 14:42:10 2021
Screenshot_20211010-144408_X-plore.jpg A 250686 Sun Oct 10 14:44:08 2021

1114652760 blocks of size 1024. 521069640 blocks available
smb: \>

[Morbius1]

If that is supposed to be a response to my request I was referring to this post:

Someone please explain this .
If I name the share [linuxshare] or [share] I cannot access it . If I name it [MyStuff] it works fine .

I'm not making this up .