Greetings all!

I need help with setting up samba! I am a frequent user of FreeBSD and Ubuntu.

Those two automatically display the workgroups in my workplace when I use them after installing with no configuration at all. They just work out of the box!

How can I configure samba in the same way in Fedora 12 so that I can access the workgroup shares at work?

!!! Fedora 12 works like a charm on my laptop. Ubuntu crashes every so often! That's why I am sticking to Fedora 12. My Workplace computers run FreeBSD !!!

Your help is much appreciated.

Cheers,

atwin

If you look at the smb.conf on your other computers you can copy the settings over to Fedora.

I use system-config-samba to define directory to share.
To add a samba user system-config-samba must started as root from terminal ( this is bug ).

Check if services ( system-config-services ) nmb and smb are running.
Check if Samba is enabeled in system-config-firewall.
Check in system-config-selinux.py ( Bolena ) if samba sher is enabled.

Fore testing porpose deiable Firewal and SELinux.

Great! I managed to find out why it wouldn´t work. I enabled samba services (client and server) as trusted in the Firewall and then everything just started to work. Thanks, for the steps flokip.

Maybe I'm in the wrong place, but can you tell me if samba is installed in Fedora 12 by default? I just got a message that is isn't, but that could just be some diagnostic. "locate samba" gives my some 64 main file paths. Most of what I read so far is at the deep end. Also tried to find a file to ./setup or ./config, but no luck. I'm not that happy with yum yet. Well, actually, which file would I install in the first place?

I just want to set up a network for my Linux netbook to get on the net through my Windows PC. Yeah, and to learn more about networking.

Try "locate sbin/smb". If you have that you have the samba server package installed.

If you don't have it, the package is called "samba". I'd recommend "samba-doc" if available.

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Thanks, jschiwal, this helps. Now to get searching.