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I have a basic LAN at home, and am trying to share a raid drive mounted on my Fedora 17 machine to Windows 7 via samba.
I can browse to my home directory (ie: through the homes share), but not to the raid drive.
Here is a dump from my log:
$ cat /var/log/samba/log.steve-pc
[2013/02/21 20:49:01.512517, 0] smbd/service.c:1055(make_connection_snum)
canonicalize_connect_path failed for service raid, path /mnt/raid
Here is my samba version:
$ smbd -V
Version 3.6.12-1.fc17
I have the following in my /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = NAS samba server %v
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
writable = yes
[raid]
path = /mnt/raid/
public = yes
writable = yes
browseable = yes
available = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
My Windows 7 workgroup is WORKGROUP.
User, group and permissions I believe are correct?
$ ls -l /home
drwx------. 33 steve steve 4096 Jan 31 19:39 steve
$ ls -l /mnt
drwxrwxrwx. 16 steve steve 4096 Jan 28 18:36 raid
The raid mount is working - I can browse in Fedora and mount via NFS to other Linux machines. In case it's useful, here are the details from my /etc/fstab:
# raid
/dev/md/NAS:0 /mnt/raid ext4 defaults 1 2
I have created a samba user, and authenticated from windows.
If I browse to \\nas I can see homes and raid listed.
If I browse to \\nas\homes I can browse through my home directory, access files etc.
Attempting to browse to \\nas\raid fails though. It eventually times out saying Windows cannot access \\nas\raid.
- I know my firewall isn't an issue since I can get through to my linux home directory.
- I know authentication isn't an issue for the same reason.
What am I doing wrong?
Steve Lorimer
Posted 2013-02-21T20:20:22.287
Reputation: 429