Fedora 8: Trying to figure out how to set up SAMBA with Windows XP
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Dave did you try the security setting at share?
Did you try the domain master and win support like I have it setup in my config? Those settings really seemed to help clients show up on the network
I know you should "not have too" beings it is a Linux box and all,, if all else fails reboot the thing..
I do have to admit I do have 1 windows box here that has its issues working with the server... and I cannot get a consistent connection when browsing from the server across the network too it as well. That is the only windows XP pro client that I have come across that gives me grief. Any of the other systems here on the network (and at the LAN party's) have no problems.... so you might be having an issue with that windows box as well...
What do you mean security? do you mean having a [security] section with options in it?
All I want to do is become familiar with how samba works. I dont care about security right now. i just want to get it working right now.
Dave go back and look at the first half of that cfg stuff I posted on the first page of this thread.. under the upper (global) half there is a setting for security = share. Regardless of what you think you need for security at the moment that setting affects the way client interact with samba.
Dave go back and look at the first half of that cfg stuff I posted on the first page of this thread.. under the upper (global) half there is a setting for security = share. Regardless of what you think you need for security at the moment that setting affects the way client interact with samba.
ok I put that share option in there just like you said. In XP I can see my computer name Fedora8box and I can click on it to view the shared folders but when I do, there is nothing listed. So I am assuming that it is an issue with how I wrote the share info.
as you can see, I just created a new section like this:
So, when I go to map a drive and select the networked computer Fedora8box, shouldnt I then see the folder "heetsmb"?
I've restarted nmb and smb each time i make a change... the only thing I havent tried is the XP firewall, but usually that isnt a problem. I will try that soon if I still cant get it.
generally, if you are on your home network and have a dhcp/router/firewall between your computer and your dsl/cable modem then there is no reason to have the windows firewall on. In fact I even have windows firewall/ICS turned off in services.
Just for the hell of it reboot the linux box....lol
Check /etc/passwd to see if there is an account nobody in there.
Explicitly declare nobody as the samba guest account (guest account = nobody in [general] - this should be the default anyway).
chown nobody /home/heetsmb
touch /home/heetssmb/test.txt
chown nobody /home/heetssmb/test.txt
try to access test.txt
look in you samba logs if it doesn't work and tell us what they say (use "tail -20 /pathtolog/logfile" to just get last 20 lines)
I did: touch /home/heetssmb/test.txt but it said that it didnt exsist so i assumed that you made a typing error so i changed it to touch /home/heetsmb/test.txt which worked but then there was nothing in the text file at all.
oh I see what you guys are saying. i already have a few files in the shared folder which i also can not see. I cant see the folder and i cant see the files in that folder. i dont know what the hell is wrong
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