Samba share not visible from PC
 

I am running Fedora 9, and Samba is running in services.

I setup th default public share.

I cannot see it at all frmo my Windows Vista PCs when I browse the network.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

In smb.conf do you have

workgroup = XXX

where XXX is the same as your Windows' workgroup?

Yes
 

I can post Samba config later when I get home.

The workgoup name is the same as the Windows workgroup names on the PCs.

Then I'd also check that your firewall is set up for Samba.

Note that SELinux may cause you some issues, but we can fix that.

I do not cross a firewall. They are on the same network.

I also think I have my vista firewall disabled.

I may be running selinux (if I knew what that was).

Thx for the help btw.

Fedora has its firewall enabled by default, so unless you disabled it, it on.

Edit - you'll find the settings under one of the admin menus (security amd SELinux or something like that). Not in Fedora at present.

I will check when I am at home later.

Thx for the help.

You can just do

iptables -L

as root from a terminal to show what's set up in the firewall.

I think this was a firewall/selinux issue.

I went into the firewall admin tool and changed to allow smb. Still no luck.

I went into the selinux admin tool and check all samba read/write. At that point the linux box showed up on my network with the file shares there.


I have not copied files up yet. Will have to try that.


I did notice that the samba config tool asks to create 'windows' users for the shares.

Is it possible to just use the local linux accounts to control access? Do I need to create samba user/passwords on top of my windows accounts and also my linux user accounts?

Thanks for your help.

Samba keeps its own user database. Typically you'd mirror linux users - that way you can share their home directories, etc.

Do you have lots of users? I would assume that there is a migration tool you can use to copy linux users across