Some users cannot see some shares

[geekraver]

Hi all

Starting a new thread to condense the info I have. This is driving me crazy.

I have two users (gram - me, and lisa - my wife). When I set up Amahi I used my username. Then I added my wife with the same password she uses on her PC. All machines, the server included, are in the same workgroup, WHEELER. The server's hostname is hda.wheeler.local. I have four data drives with shares, which are all mounted under /media; e.g. /media/HIT2_0 for my Hitachi 2GB. I have modified the share paths to point to the appropriate directories. All shares are set to be accessible by everyone.

From my PC (Win 7 Ultimate) I can access all shares with no issues. From my wife's PC (win 7 Home Premium) she can see the server, and see the list of shares. However, she can only open the "lisa" share that was created automatically for her. The remaining shares cannot be opened, but we get two different results, either an immediate "access denied" on some, or a ~10 second delay followed by a "path cannot be found" error on others. There is nothing of note in the smbd.log or nmbd.log, even with -d 10 debug level.

Some things I have tried with no change in results:

- I have checked the credential manager on her machine; she has no stored credentials for SMB
- numerous reboots
- resetting her password (on the server side)
- changing the security policy to allow LM/NTLM responses
- adding guest access to the Samba options for the shares
- explicitly adding per-user access rights on the shares for her user account

Short of starting to do packet capture and disassembly, I'm not sure what else to do at this point, and would love less painful suggestions.

BTW I'm not sure if I should be able to see the shares under Places - Windows Network when logged in to the server itself. I do see the server icon HDA but clicking on it gives "Unable to mount location - Failed to retrieve share list from server". But that seems to be an unrelated issue (although it is aggravating too).

[bigfoot65]

Have you checked out the shares troubleshooter in the wiki located at http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Shares_troubleshooting? There is some info on accessing shares with Windows 7 clients.

Interesting enough, I am using Windows 7 on 2 clients and have no problems. I hope this helps.

[geekraver]

Yes, I did look at that; I don't think there was anything there helpful in this case.

[cpg]

hi, make sure the workgroups match!

with advanced settings on go to Setup > Shares > Settings

make sure the workgroup there matches what you want. say WHEELER

in windows 7 you have to type:

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WHEELER\lisa

as the username

[geekraver]

Type WHEELER\lisa where? I'm not prompted for credentials when I try to open the share.

[whetu]

Have you tred connecting as her from your PC? (i.e. Use process of elimination with a known good PC to see if it's her machine or Amahi...)

Is there anything interesting in Windows' Event Log?

In /var/hda/files/FOO/ (let's say, /var/hda/files/music/), when you do an ls -la what kind of results do you get? Now how about the same vs ls -la /var/hda/files/lisa/ ?

After consolidating my data onto my new HDA, I had some odd permission issues at the filesystem level that were quickly fixed by a recursive chown and chmod. This might just be the group permissions being in need of some attention...