OK, my samba server was working fine i have 2TB RAID1 drive as a storage and had 300gb sata drive for boot the Debian OS 6.0.4. unfortunately my sata boot drive faild and i had to reinstall the OS in new drive. now when i plug the old Raid drives the data was still there. but permissions were a bit messed, it was showing numbers like 100015 or 100016 instead of owning user name or groups. so i did "chown root:root * -R" i thought that i will reassign the FS rights to every individual folder again. so i did. but now the shares in smb.conf that were working previously now they are throwing error in log files and the same share was working perfectly before.
here is the error smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum) canonicalize_connect_path failed for service Filesharing, path /nas/backup/Filesharing now i created a new folder on new driver which is the new OS drive. i created a "test" folder at root my users and i can access either we can create folders and delete here is the folder at "/test" (we can access it with full rights) drwxrwxrwx 4 admin admin-grp 4096 May 23 19:30 test this folder is on "/nas/backup/Filesharing" (this is the problem part and many other share like this are not working) drwxrwxrwx 3 admin admin-grp 4096 May 23 19:34 Filesharing [test] comment = test for All path = /test read only = No create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 [Filesharing] comment = Filesharing for All path = /nas/backup/Filesharing read only = No create mask = 0770 directory mask = 0770 you can see both shares have same FS rights and same share rights but my users can access /test but not /nas/backup/filesharing and generating this error. smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum) canonicalize_connect_path failed for service Filesharing, path /nas/backup/Filesharing however i as admin user can access things in "filesharing" so i thought that admin is the owner of this folder so i change the ownership of Filesharing folder to a another user and i tested it with that user but still no luck. even thought it doesnt make any sense as 777 is already given to the folder. now i am handicap and nowhere to go. i look for the said error on google on so many places. which shows that it is a File system rights related issue. and according to my knowledge there is nothing to do with FS rights it is some thing different as 777 is already given to both of the folders. Thanks, MYK -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba