Can't Connect to Samba share but I can SSH and I can connect to other shares

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I should have ended with “shouldn’t be this difficult… on THIS machine.” But I do agree with you.

As I said earlier, the BEELINK2 is a brand new XFCE Manjaro install. Its a 4 inch SBC using a Celeron 5105 processor, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. I’m tempted to just run the installer all over again, but I also want to figure out what’s going on here. Besides Samba and its associated programs, I’ve only installed Chrome and Thunar Shares.

I can SSH in and out, I can connect OUT to all of my other SMB shares on the network (Mac and Windows), I just cannot connect IN. It feels like something is conflicting with the authentication or there’s a permissions issue somewhere, but I haven’t found it yet.

UPDATE

My samba logs are filled with these…

[2024/03/12 06:01:22.811201,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:592(smb_pam_account)
  smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: rob215x
[2024/03/12 06:01:22.811243,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:800(smb_pam_accountcheck)
  smb_pam_accountcheck: PAM: Account Validation Failed - Rejecting User rob215x!
[2024/03/12 06:01:23.613335,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:592(smb_pam_account)
  smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: rob215x
[2024/03/12 06:01:23.613376,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:800(smb_pam_accountcheck)
  smb_pam_accountcheck: PAM: Account Validation Failed - Rejecting User rob215x!
[2024/03/12 06:01:23.631346,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:592(smb_pam_account)
  smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: rob215x
[2024/03/12 06:01:23.631389,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:800(smb_pam_accountcheck)
  smb_pam_accountcheck: PAM: Account Validation Failed - Rejecting User rob215x!

UPDATE 2

I tried connecting with user “hans” as described in @linux-aarhus tutorial, and I get this in /var/log/samba/192.168.1.71.log:

[2024/03/13 00:06:25.153180,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:592(smb_pam_account)
  smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: hans
[2024/03/13 00:06:25.153247,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:800(smb_pam_accountcheck)
  smb_pam_accountcheck: PAM: Account Validation Failed - Rejecting User hans!
[2024/03/13 00:06:46.737296,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:592(smb_pam_account)
  smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: hans
[2024/03/13 00:06:46.737360,  0] ../../source3/auth/pampass.c:800(smb_pam_accountcheck)
  smb_pam_accountcheck: PAM: Account Validation Failed - Rejecting User hans!

At this point, I wonder if there is no problem with my Samba configuration but something else is broken?

Could my problem be related to this post?? …