Change Samba Share

[Nobody's Hero]

Hi All,

Yes its saturday and I am sure someone from the IT biz will be here. IOff hours are a part of life for 20 years or so.

Ok,

I am running samba 2.2.8a, yes, on RH9 Linux and I know I should have posted @ linux, however, this HPUX forum is one of the best.


One of my samba shares are corrupt. When I made a permission change 'force user = psoft'
I opened the door for everyone that has access to the top level share. I removed the entry but somwhow it wont revert back. So, what I want to do, is copy all of the data from the bad 'hrprd' share > 'hrprdnew'. then stop samba, switch the names, start samba and regrant all group permissions. See, we run samba on linux and control it through the NT domain and it works well after 2 months of setup. Will this switch work OK? Is there anything I am not seeing here? This is a production share for critical data, so of course I am a little nervous. Help is always appreciated here.

10x

RPM

[Darren Prior · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

I'm not quite sure I understand about the "not reverting back" bit. If you're suggesting that users that are still logged in are still able to access the share as the psoft user then this is correct behaviour. If they were to disconnect and remap the share, or if their smbd were killed, or if samba was restarted then smb.conf will be re-read and used.

regards,

Darren.