02-04-2011
[Solved] Cannot Connect to Shared Drives
Hello,
I just updated my Solaris 10 SPARC server w/ the 1/31 10_Recommended patch cluster and have now lost all access to the RAIDs. Nobody can access any shared drives, which is where we keep 100% of our data and daily working files.
What I have:
- Solaris 10 SPARC
- Running Samba
- Connected to Windows clients
What I can do:
- Ping from my workstation
- Open Puddy and logon via secure telnet. I can then access the server and RAID
- Access the NAS
When I logon to my workstation, there is NO message stating that my roaming profile could not be found or any indication that a connectivity problem exists, so I think Samba is OK. I cannot map the RAIDs via Windows Explorer.
Maybe there was some network service that is not starting up? There are 2 seperate RAIDs and all cables appear connected. Everything was working before the 10_recommended cluster update, so it should not be a hardware or physical connection problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have 7 people waiting to do work but cannot access their data. Thanks in advance.
Ken
---------- Post updated at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:20 AM ----------
Ok, I think I have narrowed this down to a Samba issue. It is network-related and only affects the windows Machines. I notices there are several files in /usr/sfw/bin and lib that were changed during the patch cluster update. Part of Samba works, because we can logon w/out issue. We just can't access any network shares. Any thoughts?
Ken
---------- Post updated at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:47 AM ----------
This issue is resolved. Thought I would post the solution just in case someone else has the same problem.
Basically, the 1/31 10_Recommened Patch Cluster contained a patch (146363-01) that updated a vulnerability in Samba. However, it also changed where Samba looked for critical files such as smb.conf. Several dynamic links were inserted telling the binaries to look in /etc/samba, when it has always been located in /etc/sfw. Just copying the smb.conf to /etc/samba did not work, so there were probably other configuration changes made that I did not find. I ended up backing out 146363-01 and now everything works as it should.
Ken
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
smbstatus
SMBSTATUS(1) User Commands SMBSTATUS(1)
NAME
smbstatus - report on current Samba connections
SYNOPSIS
smbstatus [-P] [-b] [-d <debug level>] [-v] [-L] [-B] [-p] [-S] [-s <configuration file>] [-u <username>]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
smbstatus is a very simple program to list the current Samba connections.
OPTIONS
-P|--profile
If samba has been compiled with the profiling option, print only the contents of the profiling shared memory area.
-b|--brief
gives brief output.
-d|--debuglevel=level
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0.
The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical
errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are
designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override the smb.conf.5.html# parameter in the smb.conf file.
-V|--version
Prints the program version number.
-s|--configfile <configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details required by the server. The information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well as descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide. See smb.conf
for more information. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time.
-l|--log-basename=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
file is never removed by the client.
-v|--verbose
gives verbose output.
-L|--locks
causes smbstatus to only list locks.
-B|--byterange
causes smbstatus to include byte range locks.
-p|--processes
print a list of smbd(8) processes and exit. Useful for scripting.
-S|--shares
causes smbstatus to only list shares.
-h|--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-u|--user=<username>
selects information relevant to username only.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8) and smb.conf(5).
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
Samba 3.5 06/18/2010 SMBSTATUS(1)