From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Bad: When i try to share my tape using samba shares then it wont share the tape drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): samba-3.0.0-14.3E How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.[Tape] comment = Backup Tape Drive path = /dev/tape writable = yes public = yes browseable = yes create mask = 0765 Actual Results: crashed nautilus when trying to access the Tpae share from nautilus smbfs:/// Additional info: show the tape contents and read and write on tape.
1: Update your Samba installation. 3.0.0 has known security vulnerabilities. 2: "man smb.conf" says path (S) This parameter specifies a directory to which the user of the service is to be given access. In the case of printable services, this is where print data will spool prior to being submitted to the host for printing. Note that that says "directory", not "device". Did you run testparm after you created your smb.conf? It should complain loudly about the non-directory in your share definition. 3: the fact that Nautilus crashed when accessing an invalid share is a bug in Nautilus that you should open separately.