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DeatzoSeol

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Registered: 2012-06-12

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Samba can not open secrets.tdb

I started Samba the other day, but even though the daemon was running, no clients could connect to it...

Luckily, the log gave me the answer:

smbd[1238]: [2012/06/25 22:08:02.689949,  0] passdb/secrets.c:76(secrets_init)
smbd[1238]:   Failed to open /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb
smbd[1239]: [2012/06/25 22:08:02.691355,  0] passdb/secrets.c:76(secrets_init)
smbd[1239]:   Failed to open /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb
smbd[1239]: [2012/06/25 22:08:02.691430,  0] smbd/server.c:1169(main)
smbd[1239]:   ERROR: smbd can not open secrets.tdb

However, a simple ls -l on /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb shows

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root passdb.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root secrets.tdb

So it can read the files... what's going on here?

Edit: I found the problem: apparently, Samba not only needs to be able to read the file, but also write to them. Since I was on a read-only rootfs, symlinking these to /var/lib/samba solved my problem.

Last edited by DeatzoSeol (2012-06-26 19:48:17)