I just installed Fedora 4 at home and am having one hard time getting Samba to work properly. All I want is to create the homes directories and I want one folder that is public.

Now, for the Home directories, I simply used the default configurations. Samba allows me to authenticate okay (I see my user's home directory) but it won't allow me to write to it.

In another instance, I can view the files in windows, but I cannot open the file. Winblows just tells me that the network location cannot be found.

Any Ideas would be absolutely wonderful

I use webmin to admin alot of my services, try it it works well with samba and lets you set read & write access easily

I went throught the exact same problems. I spent alot of time trying to track down the cause of the newly eratic behavior of Samba in FC4. FC2 and 3beta worked perfectly for me, but after the switch, permissions went nuts.

After some serious reading, I stumbled into a change in the SELinux policies affecting Samba.


Disable SELinux, or downgrade your policy strength, and you should get control of Samba back.



Enjoy.

Awesome, thanks. I really appreciate your guys' help with this.

Anything for a fellow Idahoan, and a linux user no less.

The default firewall installed by fedora stops netbios from working. It blocks ports 137 and 138 which are the ports used by the SMB protocol. I think FC needs to look at this and provide a much better way of setting up a firewall.

use lokkit on the command line for a very VERY easy way to setup a firewall.
Just specify the ports and go. Nothing more.




No reason to have to walk through the IPtables syntax.

I think fedora realized they'd made some mistakes and made some allowances for samba to run. You can disable the SELinux protection for smdb, nmdb, and winbind from within the SELinux setup. That works to correct the problem. More in depth is under discussion here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=samba+SELinux

I just posted a solution without disabling SELinux. Do a search on my user name to locate the solution.