Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Samba wide links problems: canonicalize_connect_path failed

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

On 22/01/11 20:20, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Quoting Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
>> On 22/01/11 12:06, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>> Quoting Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
>>>
>>>> On 22/01/11 11:45, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>>>>> Quoting Dominic Raferd<dl...@ed...>:
>>>>>> Thanks Heiko, but I do not have /var anywhere in my smb.conf file. I
>>>>>> only have paths that are subdirectories of /home.
>>>>> Okay.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have this line in the smb.conf?
>>>>>
>>>>> [IPC$]
>>>>> wide links = Yes
>>>>>
>>>> No, I have no reference to IPC at all. I think IPC is some internal
>>>> Samba thingy. I do have 'wide links = Yes' in all my shares (but IPC is
>>>> not among them) - I want to have wide links = No (the default - safe -
>>>> setting) but this prevents access.
>>> Add the above 2 lines to your smb.conf and things should work better.
>>> It's a hidden share which is being used for the communication.
>>> (Not sure about the details on it).
>> If I add lines:
>>
>> [IPC$]
>>       path = /shm/var/tmp
>>       wide links = Yes
>>
>> then the errors in log about IPC stop, which is good, thanks. Both of
>> these lines are needed. But if I have a share with wide links = No and I
>> try to connect to it I still see this in the log:
>>
>> [2011/01/22 14:27:18.361834,  0] smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
>>     canonicalize_connect_path failed for service exampleshare, path
>> /home/z-shares/exampleshare
> I don't understand why it fails on /home, the ones I used under /var
> were explained by the symlink.
>
And it not only fails on /home, it also fails with shares on /var or 
/shm/var... The only way I can get it to work is with 'wide links = Yes' 
parameter. In fact I cannot find any location that works with 'wide 
links = no'. Do you have shares on /var working with 'wide links = No'?