Re: Samba help.

[John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com>]

On 1/29/2017 12:25 AM, R. Ramesh wrote:
> I recently upgraded my debian jesse to 8.6. All of a sudden all samba 
> guest access to this box stopped working. I did not update smb.conf 
> file any time before or after.  I vaguely remember that there was a 
> flash of notes flying by when samba was upgraded, but do not recall 
> what it is.
>
> BTW, I can mount if I provide an actual valid user with password. Only 
> guest access does not work.
>
> Linux host 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.36-1+deb8u2 
> (2016-10-19) i686 GNU/Linux
> Samba Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u2
>
> Guest access to the following share fails after the upgrade:
>
> [data]
>     path = /data
>     create mask = 0755
>     directory mask = 0755
>     public = yes
>     browseable = yes
>     writable = yes
>     guest ok = yes
>
> If it is not too much trouble, please copy me your responses
>
> Thanks
>
> Ramesh
Check to see that smb.conf was not replaced. If it was, the previous 
version will be called smb.conf.dpkg-dist or smb.conf.ucf-dist. You will 
have to compare them with your smb.conf file and merge any differences.

-- john