[arch-general] Update to samba, smbclient, libwbclient breaks standalone file service/cifs mounts

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Wed Apr 25 03:32:43 UTC 2018


All,

  The samba, smbclient, libwbclient from 4.7.6 to 4.8 breaks role=standalone
breaks the standalone file-server and cifs mounts.

  Gone with 4.8 are the nmbd.service and smbd.service. Standalone servers
should use windbind.service for file sharing and cifs mounts -- but it does
not work.

  After tonight's update to 4.8.0 all cifs mounts were left unreachable. This
after disabling nmbd and smbd, enabling winbind and starting windbind (which
started fine) all cifs-mounts to phx (my Arch server) were broken and
completely inaccessible triggering a weird "Host is down" message simply
trying to `ls -al` the /mnt directory, e.g.:

$ l /mnt
ls: cannot access /mnt/phx: Host is down
ls: cannot access /mnt/phx-david: Host is down
ls: cannot access /mnt/phx-cfg: Host is down
total 41
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Oct 25 13:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep  4  2012 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Oct 25 13:13 af
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 17  2010 nm
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 17  2010 nm-cfg
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 17  2010 nm-david
d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? phx
d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? phx-cfg
d?????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? phx-david
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root  568 Jan 22  2008 pv
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 14  2016 sdd
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 17  2010 usb
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 13  2016 usb2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar  3  2011 win

  Downgrading to 4.7.6 restore full functionality. Apparently there are
problems with the 4.8 rollout on samba at lists.samba.org. If you have a
production box serving files in standalone mode -- double check your access
after update.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.


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