Samba between Ubuntu server 10.10 and Windows Vista, Windows 7

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I have a linux box running Linux server ubuntu 10.10. I have installed Samba on this linux box and want to share files with my laptops which run Windows Vista home and Windows 7 home.
I have been struggling with the setup for almost a month but couldn't get it right. If I try to access share folder from Windows Vista, I get message

"Windows cannot access \\server_ip_address". 
Error code: 0x80070035. The network path was not found.

If I access from Windows 7, then after entering password to login I can see the list of share folders on Linux box. But if I click on a share folder, I get the same error message as above.

Tail /var/log/samba/log.windows7-pc I got the following message:

[2011/03/16 00:17:41.427238,  0] smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
canonicalize_connect_path failed for service sharemedia, path /root/sharemedia

Here is my setting in smb.conf
[global]
share modes = yes
netbios name = Samba

workgroup = WORKGROUP

wins support = yes

encrypt passwords = true

[sharemedia]
comment = Tesing sharing using Samba
path=/root/sharemedia/
public = yes
valid users = samba_usr_name

; make sure all files are sensible permissions
create mask = 0660
force create mask = 0660
directory mask = 2770
force directory mask = 2770
directory security mask = 0000

; Normal share parameters          
read only = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes                     
guest ok = no

Best Answer

Try enable guest OK. Also are you accessing via IP or via a name?

Also, due to the funny permissions that can sometimes apply to /root, you should try another directory ie /home/someusers/sharemedia/.

This is only half a solution, I can't be sure what the problem is without further troubleshooting.

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Samba Permissions – I’m going to throw it!

This might help. I do something similar, but only one share is open to the group's users. Other shares are read-only except for a single maintainer user. The [global] section of my smb.conf is almost identical to yours, except I don't use the force create/directory mode directives (in my case, they'd interfere with the other shares).

Here's the share definition:

[shared stuff]
        comment = blah, blah, etc
        path = /path/to/share
        write list = @sambagroup
        force group = +sambagroup
        read only = yes
        directory mask = 0775
        create mask = 0664
        guest ok = yes
        invalid users = root
        case sensitive = True
        default case = lower
        preserve case = yes
        short preserve case = yes

The important stuff here are these:

read only = yes -- by default, read only.
guest ok = yes -- guests can browse.
write list = @sambagroup -- Authenticated members of sambagroup can write.
force group = +sambagroup -- The + means that the force only applies to existing members of sambagroup. They're already the only ones who can write. I think, without the +, guest is given sambagroup credentials, which is not wanted (particularly with the write list directive above).
directory mask = 0775
create mask = 0664

These do exactly what you want yours to do: "drwxrwxr-x" on directories, "rwxrwxr-x" on files, and newly created files are owned by the user and sambagroup. The maintainers of the other shares get the same permissions as everyone else when working in shared stuff, and permissions & groups are normal when they work in the other shares.

My smb.conf has been working with only minor tweaks through several different versions of Samba, and currently is used with Samba 3.2.5. I never had it running on Ubuntu 8.04, but it ran on Ubuntu 7.04 for a long time before getting migrated to a recent Debian Lenny install.

Linux – Why is samba denying me access to the share

Is SELinux active? If it is, then you can make it accessible by setting the type to public_content_t. If samba should be able to write to it, then set the type to public_content_rw_t. Note that if you do the latter, you will also need to tell SELinux about this; my system-config-selinux has a boolean for this: Allow Samba to write files in directories labeled public_content_rw_t

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