Samba setup in Fedora 19, Win-XP access denied

Tom Douglas · 12-21-2013, 09:00 PM

Hi, folks! It's been a while since I was last here with my old and big Pentium-3 boxes (old!) with Fedora 5 through 11) installed. Now I'm back with having installed Fedora 20 and 19.

I'm trying to set up Samba with no success. Found some bug reports for Samba on F20 so installed F19. No bug report for F19 but getting identical symptoms. Keep getting "Access denied" on my WinXP machine. Samba's workgroup and user matches the WinXP's params. The WinXP box accesses an F8 box (old!) with no problem, so I'm certain that the F19 box is causing grief.

The firewalld and iptables services are stopped. SELINUX=disable in /run/smbd and ran getenforce. My Win-XP successfully pings the F19 box. F19's Firefox accesses the internet.

The smbd log indicates this:

Code:

../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
  Failed to delete pidfile /run/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory

The file /run/smbd.pid contains a four-digit number.

I checked the path that goes to my home directory. How is this "No such file or directory" coming from?

I also see in the smbd log:

Code:

../source3/smbd/server.c:1281(main)
  standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option

Google didn't pull up anything meaningful. What does this "standard input is not a socket" mean?

What did I overlook? It's been a few years since I set up Samba on several boxes (F5 thru F11).

Thank you all! Happy holidays!

Tom D.
Denver, Colorado, USA!!

allend · 12-21-2013, 09:48 PM

Have you set up Samba user accounts using pdbedit?

hussam.dh · 12-22-2013, 07:56 AM

What version of samba you have on fedora 19
and what is it in fedora 8
can you share files between f8 and f19?

Tom Douglas · 12-28-2013, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

Have you set up Samba user accounts using pdbedit?

I used a combination of gedit and service-config-samba for setting the configuration. This is what I have in the samba.conf file:

Code:

	workgroup = thehouse
	server string = 

[tom]
	path = /home/tom
	read only = no
	browseable = yes
	valid users = tom

Quote:

Originally Posted by allend

What version of samba you have on fedora 19
and what is it in fedora 8
can you share files between f8 and f19?

I did something in F19 that killed the entire F19 OS so I reinstalled F20 and been working on that since.

Looks like F8 has samba-i386-3.0.26a (old!). F20 has samba-i686-4.1.3. F8 sees F20 as network and Windows but can't get into it. I transferred files from F8 to F20 using the WinXP machine. Sometimes I can share files between F20 and WinXP (VERY slow authentication), other times I use a thumb drive. F20 doesn't show anything on the LAN.

Bottom line: sometimes I can get into F20 via Samba using the WinXP machine, sometimes not. When able to access, authentication is VERY slow. iptables and firewalld are shut off.