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Can't read from SAMBA shares

Posted: May 6th, 2012, 4:41 pm
by yoram
Hi
Last week I wiggled with mount points (fstab file) on my server and it seems that I damaged something.
When entering webmin, I have on the main screen only two bars (VS three) for real memory and disk space. The third (i think it was virtual mem) in missing.
And about since that time I can only write to my SAMBA shares. All reads are gone. I could see the directory structure but file reads are slow to non-existing
Tried to create a new share but the behavior was the same


this is the fstab file after editing:

yoram@CAROLINE:~$ sudo vim /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/mapper/CAROLINE-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=a9eeca00-0045-4627-a0a3-6fba4860aa65 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2
UUID=4b7f015a-fb66-40d4-a1b1-75307ef7573a /mnt/storage ext3 defaults 0 0
/mnt/storage /export/storage bind bind 0
/mnt/backup/libs/Movies /Movies bind bind 0
/mnt/storage/libs /libs bind bind 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup ext4 defaults 0 0
~
~
~


is this behavior of SAMBA familiar to someone. On my searches I found SAMBA acting as READ-ONLY but not as WRITE-ONLY :?

Yoram

Re: Can't read from SAMBA shares

Posted: May 9th, 2012, 6:44 pm
by yoram
Update!
Yesterday, a day after I reinstalled the SAMBA server I could read files again. Happily, I went to sleep
to find out that this afternoon it's gone again.
Files could be written to the samba shares but not read from

Pls help
Yoram

Re: Can't read from SAMBA shares

Posted: May 12th, 2012, 3:36 pm
by yoram
SOLVED

It was a switch problem.
Bypassed the problematic switch and everything is fine now.

Yoram