Unable to share from Fedora 33 to Windows 10 using Samba
by eternallygeek from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5EEWN)
Hello!
I am trying to share a folder on my Linux machine (Fedora 33) and unable to access the share on a Windows 10 machine.
- I already have a share that is accessible from the Win10 machine on the Linux machine: /public --- so there is already a working share
- I set that up using a tutorial on the web months back but no longer can find that resource.
- From the Win10 machine I can see the new share 'music' that I added to the etc/samba/smb.conf
- When I attempt to open the share folder on Win10 I get a cursor spin for a bit and then the "Windows Cannot access \\machinename\music"
- I found a webpage that suggested looking in the log.smbd file and I do see this probable error:
make_connection_snum: canonicalize_connect_path failed for service music, path /mnt/spare/music
- The working share is on the main physical HD at /srv/public while the non-working music share is on a second HD that I have mounted at /mnt/spare and the content is in /mnt/spare/music
Any suggestions or ideas? (let me know if there is any other log or config file that I can share that might be helpful)
Thanks!


I am trying to share a folder on my Linux machine (Fedora 33) and unable to access the share on a Windows 10 machine.
- I already have a share that is accessible from the Win10 machine on the Linux machine: /public --- so there is already a working share
- I set that up using a tutorial on the web months back but no longer can find that resource.
- From the Win10 machine I can see the new share 'music' that I added to the etc/samba/smb.conf
- When I attempt to open the share folder on Win10 I get a cursor spin for a bit and then the "Windows Cannot access \\machinename\music"
- I found a webpage that suggested looking in the log.smbd file and I do see this probable error:
make_connection_snum: canonicalize_connect_path failed for service music, path /mnt/spare/music
- The working share is on the main physical HD at /srv/public while the non-working music share is on a second HD that I have mounted at /mnt/spare and the content is in /mnt/spare/music
Any suggestions or ideas? (let me know if there is any other log or config file that I can share that might be helpful)
Thanks!