Samba error: "Invalid function"
I have installed samba share in Redhat box and can connect to it from local machine. However, from an XP machine, I can only successfully connect to the root resource (eg "\ machine"). Connecting to actual shared folders (eg "\ machine \ shared") generates an error.
Complete error message:
\ machine \ share is not available. You may not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.
Invalid function.
Looking at the properties from the window side, I can see "everyone", "root (Unix Group \ root)" and "root (Unix User \ root)", which have no permissions.
I am using shared based authentication and the user assigned to the guest account has read / write access to the shared folder.
Has anyone faced a similar issue before? Thanks in advance for any help.
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It looks like the Windows machine was caching the authentication credentials rather than updating it as the samba server's authentication mode was changed. This meant that after I was unable to connect to the samba server (due to bad server side settings), connections would continue to fail even when the server settings were corrected. Restarting the XP computer resolved the problem.
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