I'm trying to setup a samba server to share data among clients via cifs. As a test, I mounted the samba share on the same machine and tried to access the contents of the directory. The mount command was:mount -t cifs -o username=sthomaso,workgroup=WORKGROUP //server/scratch /mnt/server/scratch...which worked fine after entering the password. Although I can cd /mnt/server/scratch, when I try to list the contents of the directory with ls, I get error ls: reading directory .: Permission denied.On the server, my /etc/samba/smb.conf is:[global]    security = user    workgroup = WORKGROUP[homes]    writeable = yes[scratch]    path = /var/scratch    valid users = @feausers    writeable = yesUser sthomaso was added to tdbsam with command:pdbedit -a -u sthomasoUser sthomaso is in group feausers, verified with the groups sthomaso command./bin/ls -lF /var | grep scratch shows:drwxrwx--T. 2 root feausers 4096 Jun 14 14:40 scratch//var/log/samba/log.smbd contains validation of a successful connection in line:<snip> smbd/service.c:1070(make_connection_snum)<snip> connect to service scratch initially as user sthomaso (uid=500, gid=501) (pid 99999)So it looks like I am successfully mounting the share, but why can't I read the directory and access the files?
reading cifs share fails with permission denied - cifs samba directory permission denied
permissions;directory;samba