Well, it turns out to be the Webroot SpySweeper product that causes this. Disabling it had no effect, nor did a simple uninstall. It required a reboot after uninstall.
Bizarre. I'll be contacting them via email today :) -- Dean Carpenter deano at areyes com 94TT :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keith Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Edmunds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:20 AM > Subject: Re: [Samba] Bizarre failure of samba shares to XP > > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 23:48:26 -0400 > > Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The really weird part is that I can connect to any subdirectory below > the > > > share root just fine. > > > > I would suspect directory permissions/ownership of the share root. Can the > > same user successfully access the share root from another PC? > > Yes, that's the weird part. From the original msg ... > > It gets odder. This problem happens on my main XP box. A second XP box > still works just fine, as it always has. Connects to share roots with > aplomb. So it looks like samba is OK - connecting from this XP box and from > smbclient works fine. > > > Keith > > Permissions haven't changed, and I've checked them in any case. It's not > bloody consistent, and that irks me. I would expect *all* XP boxes to be > unable to connect to the share root, but that's not the case. Plus, > smbclient on the debian box connects just fine. > > I also just built another test debian box, with a clean install of > sarge/testing from Debian. On top of that is the current 3.0.5 samba, and > I've added the local user "testid" with "smbpasswd -a testid". That seems > to have added it to the /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb file. I'm able to use > smbclient on this test box to connect to a test share on it, as well as to > the //debian/docs1 share on the main Linux box. > > Yet the failing XP boxes exhibit the same access denied problem when > connecting to the share root on this new test debian box. > > So it appears that something on those XP boxes (the original problem one and > the new test box I built earlier) is disagreeing with the default samba > v3.0.5 config somewhere. I just don't know where to look :( -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba