Automatic upgrade in Ubuntu Hardy breaks Samba - 9-13-08

[glass.dimly]

Binary package hint: samba

After upgrading the following packages automatically:

Commit Log for Sat Sep 13 17:11:24 2008

samba (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) to 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.6
samba-common (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) to 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.6
smbclient (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) to 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.6
winbind (3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.5) to 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.6

...Samba is broken. My shared Virtualbox folder is no longer recognized by my hosted Windows XP install, and my Windows-hosted printer is no longer recognized.

Any ideas about what changed?

thanks,
glass.dimly

[glass.dimly (jmjohn)]

It seems that my Virtualbox folder share was removed on install. I downloaded Gsambad, then added the share that had gone missing, even though Nautilus showed it as a share.

Gsambad also told me that it couldn't find smb.conf.

After that I reinstalled nautilus-share.

Problem solved, high fives all around.

-glass.dimly

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:56:09PM -0000, glass.dimly wrote:
> Problem solved, high fives all around.
>
  status invalid

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com

[glass.dimly (jmjohn)]

Sorry for the spamminess of my posting, but I discovered that the problem wasn't fixed.

Apparently, the upgrade obliterated my old /etc/samba/smb.conf file.

When I restored the smb.conf file from backup, my settings were back, including my Windows network as well as my shared printer.

So this is a bug in the upgrade that overwrites the smb.conf file. I'm reopening the bug.

-glass.dimly

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Have you encountered this problem in later upgrades of the samba packages? Thanks in advance.

[glass.dimly (jmjohn)]

Thanks for responding to my post. I restored my old smb.conf file from backup and haven't had any problems with any of the (several) samba upgrades in Intrepid since. All has been smooth.

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed in later upgrades. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.