Samba Service Will Not Start When Using "security=server" After Patch Update

Asset ID:	1-72-2285821.1
Update Date:	2018-03-20
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Solution Type Problem Resolution Sure

Solution 2285821.1 : Samba Service Will Not Start When Using "security=server" After Patch Update

Applies to:

Solaris Operating System - Version 10 3/05 to 11.3 [Release 10.0 to 11.0]
Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Half Rack
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Cannot connect to Samba shares after installing Solaris 10 Patches or Solaris 11.3 SRU

Samba is in maintenance State

# svcs samba
STATE STIME FMRI
maintenance 11:08:09 svc:/network/samba:default

The testparm command indicates the /etc/samba/smb.conf security = server option is invalid

# testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
WARNING: Ignoring invalid value 'SERVER' for parameter 'security'
Error loading services.

Changes

Installed Solaris Samba Patch 119757-38 (SPARC) 119758-38 (X86) or later on Solaris 10, or SRU 14 or later on Solaris 11.3.

This upgrades the Solaris Samba version from 3.6.25 to version 4.4.5 or greater.

Cause

In Samba 4.x setting security to server is a invalid setting

It was deprecated in Samba 3.6.x and was removed by the Samba Community in version 4.x

This is a similar failure to the one discussed in Document 2257883.1

Solution

Reconfigure Samba to use a valid security mode of user, domain, or ads

NOTE To Support Engineers:

If the configuration change introduced by this upgrade change is causing a significant impact a temporary downgrade of the version can be used. provide the customer the procedure in the Internal / Limited distribution Document 2285770.1

References

<NOTE:2285770.1> - How To Downgrade Solaris Samba From Version 4.4.x

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