Samba share stopped working for me a few weeks ago

Question

A few weeks ago I believe there was some updates to samba on my 14.04 server. Ever since then, when trying to connect from my windows machines I can get to the point of seeing the folders, but when I try to access any of them I get a permissions error. Here is my setup:

[MediaServer]
path = /
available = yes
force users = root
read only = no
browseable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes

This machine isn't connected to the internet unless I specifically allow it to be, so years ago when I set these settings I thought I was allowing all machines on my network to have access. Has something changed or is there something else that could be wrong?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, which turned out to be caused by a known bug in Samba. It looks like this will be fixed in future versions.

In the meantime, the short-term workaround is:

sudo mkdir /mnt/root
sudo mount -o rbind / /mnt/root

Then add the following line to /etc/fstab:

/    /mnt/root    none    rbind    0    0

Then, edit your smb.conf file to use "path = /mnt/root" instead of "path = /".