Samba: chdir (/tmp/.private/nobody) failed

Some quick fixes and workarounds for "chdir (/tmp/.private/nobody) failed"

Quick and Dirty Fix

chattr -a /tmp/.private
chmod 1777 /tmp/.private
chmod 1777 /tmp/.private/nobody
chown nobody:nobody /tmp/.private/nobody

Add users to Nobody group

You may also be able to solve this by adding users to the nobody group.

usermod --groups nobody --append $user

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