Samba doesn't work on FC4
 

Hi!

I've an old laptop with Win 98SE installed and my PC with Fedora 4 and Win XP. The problem is: if I start XP, the laptop sees it in the network and the PC sees the laptop. But if I run Fedora, the laptop sees it, but can't communicate with it. Fedora doesn't see anything.

I've SWAT installed and it says that smbd and nmbd aren't running. But my Services application tells me they're running! What is here wrong? Please help me!

Try disabling your firewall temporaily to see if that's the problem.

Here comes the really :newbie: question: How to do it?

If you are using KDE, I think it is under the System Tools menu, (I'm not at my FC4 computer right now) but it couod be under System Settings. Cick on Security and that should bring up the firewall control GUI. I am sure the procedure is similar in Gnome but I don't know exactly where it is.

The easies way to disable the firewall is to do it at the terminal.
as root: service iptables stop

** Another idea is to look into the cifs mount. You would simply mount the windows drive you wanted using:
mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/newmountpoint -u login-id

A good reference is: www.fedorafaq.org

Good luck

I've done it! Thanks for the tips. All that I have done is to set my ethernet card to be trusted... Nothing else.