Hello,
I have just installed Fedora for use as a server, i have gone through all the steps in the help files and what i can find online but i cant seem to get access into the specific file. I can open up the network place from my windows xp machine but when i try to access its contents i get an error telling me that 'address' is not accessible...no permission.
Initially i thought that the file permissions were set to root but i changed it to the user and also allowed all permissions. Still no luck

I have another drive in the same computer with a debian server, which also has samba on it (never running at same time). When i switch to this system I can access this drive from my windows xp computer.WHat am i doing wrong??

Any help is appreciated

still not enought info to help btw could you send the output of

$ testparm

and your smb.conf file just the share part

or have u added user for samba ?

I have made a user named cole as you can see in the following outputs, however the server is used at home so security is not the highest issue.

[root@penguin2 ~]# testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[printers]"
Processing section "[Core]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
server string = Samba Server
guest account = cole
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = No
guest ok = Yes
cups options = raw
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
printable = Yes
browseable = No
[Core]
comment = Core area for server files
path = /home/cole/Core
valid users = cole
read only = No

And here is the Share definitions of the samba.conf file. I have removed all the commented stuff.

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes

# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
browseable = no

[Core]
comment = Core area for server files
path = /home/cole/Core
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
valid users = cole

I hope this is enough, thanks for your help.

I managed to get it working, this post helped me.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...920#post707920

It seemed SELinux was stopping access. Now ive got to figure out what SELinux does?

glad to hear that .
i totally disable selinux for all my office desktop workstation,
i not found this usefull for my network btw its great if you want to learn about it,
might be usefull for public server