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Document Name: When Samba Pigs Fly Document Description: When Samba Pigs Fly2009/11/04Yesterday a customer called because he needed to be able to write into a certain share on his Samba server. I ssh'd right in, made the change to the config file, resarted SAmba and shot him off an "All set!" email. Such confidence had I that immediately after hitting send, I left my house to do some errands and when I realized I had forgotten my phone, I didn't even bother to go back for it: everything is under control, all pigs are fed and ready to fly. Yeah. When I got home, I found both phone and email messages from my customer. Such a nice guy he is - he was APOLOGIZING to me because it didn't work. "Maybe I'm doing something wrong?", he asked. I ssh'ed in again and saw my "mistake". I had written "writeable" rather than "writable" in the config file. I quickly fixed that, restarted Samba, snapped off another email explaining my error and took a break for lunch. Unfortunately the pigs seemed to still be having a little trouble with the flying stuff. I had barely bitten into my sandwich before he called again. Permission denied. Can't do it. Was he doing something wrong?, he begged to know? Of course not, I assured him. The damn pigs were just being stubborn. I double checked. Yes, he had write permission in the directory. What the heck? Here's part the config file for your amusement: Those pigs have wings, dammit! So exactly what happens, I asked? "I choose Save As. I navigate down to CPONLINE…" Ooops. Magic word. He said "Down", didn't he? The pigs all perked up and started tentatively fluttering their wings. I asked the $64,000 question: "Are you going through the Syn75 share or the CPONLINE share?" NO, he was not using CPONLINE. He was navigating down through the Syn75 share. THAT share has no write permission - it doesn't matter that CPONLINE is under it, that only is writable if you come to it through the CPONLINE share! I had him map a network drive to CPONLINE and the pigs lifted off into the sky and everybody was happy. Because he's such a nice guy ("Maybe I'm doing something wrong?) and because I should have paid more attention when he asked that, I'm not even sending him a bill for any of that. Pigs: to your stations! Fly, you pink porkers, fly! Author: Anthony Lawrence - Contact Author Publisher: Anthony Lawrence Licensee Name: Anthony Lawrence Reference URL: http://aplawrence.com/Linux/samba-pigs.html Copyright: All Rights Reserved Registration Date: 11/4/2009 6:21:33 PM UTC Views: 239 |
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