[PROBLEM] Samba: No shares available after bullseye update

[ofJazz]

(14th Sep, 2021 04:59 PM)Zarquon Wrote:  

(14th Sep, 2021 06:17 AM)jakenl Wrote:  After the bullseye update, I have no samba shares available anymore.

I had the same problem and noticed that in the following error

Terminal

Error loading module '/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/samba/vfs/widelinks.so': /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/samba/vfs/widelinks.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

in the /var/logs/samba/[<CLIENTNAME> logfile.

I commented out the "wide links = yes" in the smb.conf file and it started working. Not the best fix but it worked.

Same problem:
But the solution is also in the error message. Samba can reload modules, here the widelinks module is needed. However, the package samba-vfs-modules is needed to reload the modules.
After apt-get install samba-vfs-modules, the Samba share worked again.
BTW, this can be a security problem, so only set wide links to yes if it is really needed.