Unable to share certain folders on Lion Server

[ylon]

I am seeing an issue where I try to share a folder in a user’s Sites folder with another user on the system remotely via SMB sharing and unfortunately the connecting users cannot ever seem to see the share, even though that user has been assigned permission.

My scenario:
/Users is a symlink to /Volumes/some_mount/Users
I am attempting to share a users’s: ~/Sites/some_folder
I am attempting to connect from another user’s Windows XP machine who has a user account created on the Mac OS X Server and who has both the user and a group to which they belong granted R/W permissions to the ~/Sites/some_folder

The user actually connects and sees their own home folder as well as the other shares, HOWEVER they cannot see the folder that I’m attempting to share.

I initially set the user up traditionally via Mac OS X w/o Server and then, upon having issues, installed Server to hopefully ameliorate whatever issue I was experiencing. It did say that there were some issues that it fixed when I first used it, however it still will not allow remote access to that user that should have access.

I am concerned that due to /Users being a symlink that that might have bearing on the problem. Or perhaps a permissions issue that is not within the control boundaries of Mac OS X facilities. Otherwise I’m at an entire loss as to how to troubleshoot SMB issues now that apparently Mac OS X has moved away from SAMBA.

Are there additional smb logs that are available in Lion that I’m overlooking? system.log simply does not provide anything meaningful in this issue.

[antza]

Hi,

Have you tired sharing from the ~/Public folder to see if it works? Also try adding the folder to the /Users/Shared folder.

Cheers

Antz

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