Upgrade to v22 seems to have caused some permission issue

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The issue you are facing:
The Nextcloud windows client is saying;
Server replied “403 Forbidden” to “MKCOL https://fqdn/remote.php/dav/files/<username & folder>”
When I try to look for logs only the system and use ‘sudo -i’ it runs the initial script from tech and me.
FWIW - I recreated the system in October last year - I think on v19 and subsequently updated to v20 iirc.
This weekend I planned to update to v21 but it was erroring because v22 is released.

I followed the instructions to run the built-in upgrade CLI which was able to update the v21.x after I chown’d the folder;
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/nextcloud

Then I ran the update again to update to v22 and it re-adjusted the permissions
sudo bash /var/scripts/update.sh

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

  1. observe faults in the windows sync client
  2. try to run sudo -i in the console

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

unable to retrieve at the moment because of the sudo issue

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

PASTE HERE

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

PASTE HERE
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I rolled my VM back to v20 still had the issue so it isn’t the upgrade.
I deleted the startup script so I can sudo too.

Now it looks like the issue is the smbshares are unable to mount - I assume this in turn means no storage available to my accounts which is why I’m getting the issue. Possibly/maybe this is related to the Windows update on the hyper-v host that installed this weekend too, given the roll back gives similar symptoms (I saw the ‘cannot mount smbshares’ during boot)

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OK - Embarrassing :confused:

turns out to be a DNS issue. For reasons I do not yet understand, the VM couldn’t ping the Windows host where the SMBShares are located. Thus, can’t mount.

Short-term workaround has been to add an entry to the /etc/hosts file. Now that the Windows host can be seen, the SMBShares mount, and the client is able to sync once more