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Title: can't access ibays via Samba!
Post by: Tom Keiser on June 18, 2003, 08:35:00 AM

I just built a new server to be installed tomorrow. SME 5.6, Upd 4. I have created one ibay, and from any Win2K client, get this message:

\servername\ibayname is not accessible
The network name cannot be found.

I *CAN* access my home directory from this or another Win client, and can transfer files back and forth from/to it, but a regular ibay won't allow access. I've tried deleting the ibay and adding a new one with a different name, and that didn't help.  I could swear this was working earlier -- all I did was add the user names today.

ibay has a legal name, is set for:
group = everyone
write = group, read = everyone
No Web or FTP access
No dynamic content

The same things happen from a KDE Linux desktop: I can transfer to my home directory, but when I try to transfer to the ibay, it seems to start to copy, then errors off, saying drive no longer exists.

Your help would be enormously appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

Title: Re: can't access ibays via Samba!
Post by: Tom Keiser on June 18, 2003, 08:53:59 AM

I think I fixed it, but I'm uneasy. I went into the server as root, and found that my old, deleted ibay was still there, and the new one was not, even though the opposite was true from a network client.

From a browser, I created the old ibay again, and that succeeded. Then I created the new one again, and that worked. Now both are accessible from a win client.

I can't really post this to bugs, as I don't know how it happened, though I will do so if asked.  However, there were a few files in the supposedly-deleted ibay, and that may have prevented it from being hatcheted and then confused something else.

Thanks,

Tom