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i was just reading through your convo. yes samba can be a real bitch, i found that it works when it wants to! i ran FC2 for a little while and i found that the "menu > system settings > server settings > samba" (this might not be totally correct as im not infront of a gnome gui but its almost right!). also make sure that when you installed FC and you where asked about the firewall settings you made eth0 (or what ever ur ethernet card is called) is ticked as a trusted device (this was my common mistake it worked fine after that) if you didn then i belive "menu > system settings > security" (again im not sure if this is 100% correct) you can make it trusted.
i hope this helps, i had major problems with samba and i know now it can be!
I did see the Linux box before on the network back when it would prompt me for a username and password... Then everyone recommended changing all these settigns you see and then I hadn't seen it again and am still unable to reach that computer...I have the firewall disabled from the installation, since I have dual hardware firewalls protecting my LAN. Any other ideas anyone
I restarted from scratch with the smb.conf and now I managed to get the prompt again when entering \\192.168.0.106 (IP of box) I am prompted for a username and password with the username dimmed out buit with a value of 192.168.0.106\Guest ......
Any ideas anyone? Im sorta on a deadline I need this machine ready to go by Thursday of this coming week... If not ill have to throw up Windows :0 on the machine
Thanks, it helps somewhat but they use authentication and such for their log-ins... I just want to know how to have no security crap at all... ill keep tinkering around with it
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