FC4 doesnt want me to access the LAN

crimsonflame123 · 09-19-2005, 10:31 AM

Hii
We have a LAN set up here in my institute.
I recently upgraded my distro from RedHat 9 to FC4 and since then i cannot acces the LAN.
I could easily access the LAN when I used RedHat and when I installed FC4 i made the same changes in the configuration of samba server.Now I dont know where to access LAN from.A "Network" icon appears in the window when i click the Computer icon on desktop.Clicking the Network icon shows a "Windows Network" icon.On clicking this icon nothing appears.....
Am i reguired to do some more configuration somewhere or is something else wrong.Can someone please guide me......
Thanking u....

vimal · 09-20-2005, 04:17 AM

Hi crimsonflame123,
You have to mount the samba share onto your local machine. without mounting the samba share you wont be able to access it. also u could use the "smbmount" command which comes with the 'smbclient' package. I think you must also check your samba server, how its setup etc....
vimal...

crimsonflame123 · 09-20-2005, 05:21 AM

well i have configured samba before in Redhat 9 and there it seemed to work perfectly.But mounting samba??? I think i used a command smbd start to start the server and eberything was ok after that...Dont know whats wrong in FC4....could u please give me step by step instructions for how to proceed...
Thanking u...

saneax · 09-20-2005, 05:32 AM

Cant blame you...
What you click has a name... Nautilus ?

Please be more descriptive and thoughtfull before you ask, because unless you say what S/W you clicked and you got error, we cannot give you a vague answer. FC4 and RH9 are two completely different things dont expect the same functionalities.

I am presuming from your post, hence

Configure your LAN with 'system
#>system-config-network

Remember SE Linux is enabled in FC4 so disable it by default by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/selinux
SELINUX=disabled

regards

crimsonflame123 · 09-20-2005, 09:26 AM

well i desabled SELinux and did all the necesaary changes to smb.conf file.and i cant acces the network using nautilus.can i access the another computer on command line...
like for example a computer with ip 10.9.21.158
other specifications in our network are
subnet mask 255.255.2555.0
default gateway address 10.9.21.1
primary dns 10.1.1.11

this is the same configuration i get in windows and i typed them out in linux too.
on starting the samba server by using /etc/init.d/samba start
and the result was ok...
and now i dont know how to proceed coz the nautilus doent show different workgroups or any computer...