Subject: Re: [vserver] CentOS 5 Samba problem
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:24:45 +0200 (CEST)

Guenther Fuchs wrote:
> hi there,
>
> using Daniel Hozak's 2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34.1 kernel I ran into a major
> problem with the samba service: A yet running samba servicing guest
> copied from an old backup to hte freshly installed CO5 machine with a/m
> kernel has not been able to serve samba services anymore. All other IP
> based services (SSH, webserver, etc) run fully identical to the old
> system, but the connecting to the (unchangend) samba service is no more
> possible since the upgrade.
>
> What I did:
>
> .) rsynced the machine onto a backup disk using
>     rsync -aHXPxv --delete
> .) re-installed the system (Intel Atom CPU 330) from latest Debian
> "stable" kernel to a fresh CO5 sys
>     old: 2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 (Debian stable standard 0.30.216-pre2772
> kernel)
>     new: 2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34.1 (dhozac repo supplied; installed from a
> mirror)

My repo doesn't contain this anymore, as its use is fairly heavily
discouraged. The 2.6.32 kernels that are there are updated regularly...

> .) "cp -pr" config and vdir data to same loations as previousely
> .) issued vserver [samba-guest] start
> .) checked all services: up an running, not showing anything in the
> samba log's at all.
>
> Windows error message is useless, as "normal": (German) "Auf \\Samba
> kann nicht zugegriffen werden .... Der Netzwerkpfad wurde nicht gefunden"
>
> Would really like to avoid re-installation of the old Debian system as
> I'm not too familiar with Debian at all. So if anyone has a hint / guess
> where this problem comes from, pls feel welcome to let me know.

Tried smbclient to debug it?

> --
> greez,
>
> Guenther Fuchs
>


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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson