CIFS permissions not working properly since upgrade to 9.3

[Sirach Matthews]

Hi:

I recently upgraded from 9.2.1.7 to 9.3, and ever since, I have been unable to access my CIFS share from my Windows PC. Here's what I get when I try:

I've tried user name: root along with the apropriate password, to no avail. Given the example above, I even tried navigating to \\freenas\, and instead of seeing a list of CIFS shares, I get the same request for a User name and Password.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[anodos]

It's odd that you are using 'root' for your cifs user. There may be no entry in samba's passdb for root.

Try creating a user, making it owner of the shares (recursively and through the GUI), and applying default permissions to the share.

 

[Sirach Matthews]

'root' is not my CIFS user, it is simply the name of the CIFS share. I did try as you suggested, but Windows still throws me the log-in box. It had been set up to match my Windows user/pw. I'll try again, and see how it goes.

 

[Sirach Matthews]

I tried again. The PW dialog comes up even when I try navigating to \\freenas\ in Windows Explorer, to look up the list of available shares.

 

[Ericloewe]

Does this happen if you make a share that's not called root? I can imagine that name being problematic.

 

[anodos]

You should post getfacl output for the directory you are sharing. Post your smb4.conf file as well.

 

[jlpellet]

Some questions come to mind. Hope this helps.
1. what user/group owns the volume (permissions) & is it as intended?
2. For CIFS, what user/group is set as guest?
3. For the share, are you allowing guest or only allowing guest?

 

[Sirach Matthews]

OK, here's the skinny.

No matter what I did, I could not get CIFS to function. I even tried resetting the service, but the service failed to terminate. Next, I restarted services using:

Code:

service -R

I was still unable to control the CIFS service, so I rebooted via the GUI. Still no response on the service.

By happy accident, I had shut down my freeNAS unit for maintenance (i.e. adding another HDD).
When I booted up, I noticed the CIFS service was off, so I created a new CIFS share on the new drive, and it prompted me to turn on the service. Of course, I said YES! The new share on the new volume worked fine, but I still could not access my old shares which were pointing to the original volume.

I looked over the CIFS share settings for non-working share again, and noticed a new option which was checked, when I hadn't checked it [Use as home share]. I unchecked it, and once again had access to my original CIFS shares.

The two problems were:

1. Unable to access CIFS share due to [Use as home share] having been checked somehow; and
2. Unable to turn CIFS service off due to as yet unknown reason.

The Solutions to the two problems were:

1. Unchecked [Use as home share] in CIFS share settings; and
2. Performed a hard reboot, Vs a soft reboot.

Thanks again, and I hope this helps.