hi....
I have install fedora core 1. I have problem with Network Servers...the problem is Couldn't display "smb:///", because Nautilus cannot contact the SMB master browser. Check that an SMB server is running in the local network...

what should i do now??

The "Network Servers" icon is a link to browse the network for Windows (tm) type machines or machines running Samba. This icon will not work if you do not have samba-client installed or if there are no SaMBa (or Windows File Sharing machines) on your network.

I can't quite tell from your post if you are trying to set up networking in general, set up Samba, or just wondering about this error message, so:

If you need to set up networking the easiest way to do it is from a terminal type:

%redhat-config-network

A very good GUI will pop up and you can go from there (There is also a link under the fedora icon on the panel, but I am not at a Fedora machine right now, so I don't want to mislead you as to where it is located). If you have questions about the GUI, reply back to this thread, and I'll see if I can help.

If you want to install Samba:

First check to see if it is installed.
%rpm -qa | grep samba

There are three things you might see returned from this command, samba-client, samba-server, or samba-common. If you have samba-client as one of the values returned, then the problem with the link is that there are no samba servers on your network. If you do not (and I believe the link is only there if samba is installed, but I'm not sure) then the problem is that samba is not installed. Run up2date to add it.

If you have no desire to connect to a Windows machine or a Samba server, you can safely remove the icon from your desktop (and the samba rpms for that matter).

Hope this helps,

Forrest

To be honest with you I am surprise Fedora even works.... I have tried no less than 4 times to get it installed and to work and each time something screws up. So I went back to RH9.
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the thing just works. It is not for administration, but for everyday work like email and word processing this thing ROCKS.....

kuntz,

This one stumped me for a while. It wasn’t a problem under RHL9, but network services under Fedora always gave me the same error message.

First, try turning off your firewall and see if network services starts working (i.e., redhat > system settings > server settings >services, scroll down the list to ipchains (probably not running), iptables and ip6tables (if it's present), point to it/them if the box is checked, right click and select “stop”). As a rule of thumb, when something network-related doesn’t seem to be working, turn off the firewall and try it again (and that goes for the firewalls on both ends of the connection).

If network services works with the firewall off and if you are on a network with a master browser on another system, you may just be blocking the connection and will need to add a couple of lines to /etc/sysconfig/iptables to allow the connection.

But I’ll bet that there is no master browser on your network, because the exact same thing happened to me. When I modified etc/sysconfig/iptables to allow all tcp and udp communications to all ports on the local IP address and on the 127.0.0.1 loopback, network services stated working again. It’s an overkill, but it works.

I really don’t understand why the system is trying to protect itself from itself.

When you have time, look through /etc/samba/smb.conf. It contains a short list of what Samba can do for you. It can be a lot more than a M$ windows file server.


Regarding Fedora functionality, I tend to like it, and it’s worth every penny I paid for it.

Dear All:

My last post (see above) contained a serious error regarding how to stop the firewall. The text (see above) has been corrected. Never post late at night when you need sleep.