[PROBLEM] Samba: No shares available after bullseye update

[jakenl]

(15th Sep, 2021 09:46 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  Hmmm, the log file looks exactly the same for me. I'm slowly running out of ideas as to what else this could be.
the file /etc/samba/shares.conf is correct, right?

By the way, if "wide links = Yes" is set, smbd starts, but I can't access any share from client side. why I disabled wide links, I can't say anymore. Tested this with 2 total different XBian installations (one is RPi4, the other one is stone old RPi1)

I tested this on my last remaining Buster installation, there "wide links = Yes" still works. So it must be the newer Samba, I will probably have to adjust the smb.conf accordingly

running the testparm as normal user created those errors, including a remark 'Failed to open registry /var/lib/samba/registry.tdb'. Running the same command with sudo fixed that.
In the mean time i renamed the registry.tdb and restarted the service. the file was immediately recreated.

Funny enough, the existing shares I still couldn't reach on my chromebook, but when I added a new share, the available samba shares showed up in the options. I therefore deleted the existing shares on the chromebook and recreated them by adding them one by one.

Problem solved, I only don't know what triggered both the error and the solution.

Am I currently better of using the run_mode deamon or inetd? (sudo service smbd restart is a rather easy way of restarting samba after changes)