i have a fc 5 box and a xp box. they are not friends, but i need them to be.

i can ping the server name of the fc 5 box, i can even view the pages in my browser .. so the network is good. i cannot, however, browse to my var/www/html directory. i have tried every combo of security = share, = user, etc etc i can think of over the last 3 days - but no luck.

maybe i just need to start from the beginning? does anyone have a smb.conf file that allows any box on the network to get into the apache web dir listed above?

if someone could suggest a nice list of 1, 2, 3 and BAM fixed that'd be great!

I tested this one a couple minutes ago...
As seen from swat; here it is...

<code>

[global]
workgroup = UNIARDE-LAN
security = SHARE
guest account = samba
wins server = 192.168.0.1

[files]
comment = Area geral de ficheiros
path = /.disk1/samba
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

</code>

I have a 'samba' user and group; shared dir is owned by 'samba', perms 755

Have fun

the issue that seems to be happening to me is that i can see the folder and everything from my win box, but when i try to access the folder the login box pops up ... the username is greyed out and has the HOSTNAME/Guest as the username, and then asks for a password - and no combinations work. Do I need to create a Guest account?

i think u have not created smb passwd.... create it first..

The small config I posted previously worked first stab with me, here at work. It's supposed to let *ANY* user browse and access the share listed. This was tried on a fresh Slackware 11 install, samba-3.0.23c, all with stock packages and no tricks needed. On another thread you started with this same subject, I posted a share configuration which worked on my own FreeBSD server, running samba-3.0.20 .

You can try and follow RHCE's suggestion, on creating the 'Guest' account both in the system and in samba's password file. This will demand authentication before accessing the share, but at this point I think you wouldn't mind that...

Unless some samba guru jumps in and teach us both some new tricks you may well be stuck... :P

Cheers

*EDIT*
I decided to post my full smb.conf, as sween from SWAT... Maybe Fedora's samba package's compiled with different defaults than Slackware's... Try to spot'em...

< code >
[global]
dos charset = CP850
unix charset = UTF-8
display charset = LOCALE
workgroup = UNIARDE-LAN
netbios name = SAMBATUX
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = Samba 3.0.23c
interfaces =
bind interfaces only = No
security = SHARE
auth methods =
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
client schannel = Auto
server schannel = Auto
allow trusted domains = Yes
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = No
password server = *
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
private dir = /etc/samba/private
passdb backend = smbpasswd
algorithmic rid base = 1000
root directory =
guest account = samba
enable privileges = Yes
pam password change = No
passwd program =
passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*
passwd chat debug = No
passwd chat timeout = 2
check password script =
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = 0
lanman auth = Yes
ntlm auth = Yes
client NTLMv2 auth = No
client lanman auth = Yes
client plaintext auth = Yes
preload modules =
use kerberos keytab = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file =
max log size = 5000
debug timestamp = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
enable core files = Yes
smb ports = 445 139
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
disable netbios = No
reset on zero vc = No
acl compatibility = auto
defer sharing violations = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = Yes
use spnego = Yes
client signing = auto
server signing = No
client use spnego = Yes
enable asu support = No
svcctl list =
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
kernel change notify = Yes
fam change notify = Yes
lpq cache time = 30
max smbd processes = 0
paranoid server security = Yes
max disk size = 0
max open files = 10000
open files database hash size = 10007
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
use mmap = Yes
hostname lookups = No
name cache timeout = 660
load printers = Yes
printcap cache time = 750
printcap name =
cups server =
iprint server =
disable spoolss = No
addport command =
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
mangling method = hash2
mangle prefix = 1
max stat cache size = 0
stat cache = Yes
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
rename user script =
delete user script =
add group script =
delete group script =
add user to group script =
delete user from group script =
set primary group script =
add machine script =
shutdown script =
abort shutdown script =
username map script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Auto
local master = Yes
domain master = Auto
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = Yes
wins proxy = No
wins server = 192.168.0.1
wins support = No
wins hook =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
ldap admin dn =
ldap delete dn = No
ldap group suffix =
ldap idmap suffix =
ldap machine suffix =
ldap passwd sync = no
ldap replication sleep = 1000
ldap suffix =
ldap ssl =
ldap timeout = 15
ldap page size = 1024
ldap user suffix =
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
eventlog list =
config file =
preload =
lock directory = /var/cache/samba
pid directory = /var/run
utmp directory =
wtmp directory =
utmp = No
default service =
message command =
get quota command =
set quota command =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map = auto.home
afs username map =
afs token lifetime = 604800
log nt token command =
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
usershare allow guests = No
usershare max shares = 0
usershare owner only = Yes
usershare path = /var/cache/samba/usershares
usershare prefix allow list =
usershare prefix deny list =
usershare template share =
panic action =
host msdfs = Yes
passdb expand explicit = No
idmap backend =
idmap uid =
idmap gid =
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 300
winbind enum users = No
winbind enum groups = No
winbind use default domain = No
winbind trusted domains only = No
winbind nested groups = Yes
winbind nss info = template
winbind refresh tickets = No
winbind offline logon = No
comment =
path =
username =
invalid users =
valid users =
admin users =
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = Yes
acl check permissions = Yes
acl group control = No
acl map full control = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
force unknown acl user = No
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
inherit owner = No
guest only = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow =
hosts deny =
allocation roundup size = 1048576
aio read size = 0
aio write size = 0
aio write behind =
ea support = No
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
map acl inherit = No
afs share = No
block size = 1024
change notify timeout = 60
max connections = 0
min print space = 0
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
use sendfile = No
write cache size = 0
max reported print jobs = 0
max print jobs = 1000
printable = No
printing = cups
cups options =
print command =
lpq command = %p
lprm command =
lppause command =
lpresume command =
queuepause command =
queueresume command =
printer name =
use client driver = No
default devmode = Yes
force printername = No
default case = lower
case sensitive = Auto
preserve case = Yes
short preserve case = Yes
mangling char = ~
hide dot files = Yes
hide special files = No
hide unreadable = No
hide unwriteable files = No
delete veto files = No
veto files =
hide files =
veto oplock files =
map archive = Yes
map hidden = No
map system = No
map readonly = yes
mangled names = Yes
mangled map =
store dos attributes = No
dmapi support = No
browseable = Yes
blocking locks = Yes
csc policy = manual
fake oplocks = No
locking = Yes
oplocks = Yes
level2 oplocks = Yes
oplock contention limit = 2
posix locking = Yes
strict locking = Auto
share modes = Yes
dfree cache time = 0
dfree command =
copy =
include =
preexec =
preexec close = No
postexec =
root preexec =
root preexec close = No
root postexec =
available = Yes
volume =
fstype = NTFS
set directory = No
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes
dont descend =
magic script =
magic output =
delete readonly = No
dos filemode = No
dos filetimes = Yes
dos filetime resolution = No
fake directory create times = No
vfs objects =
msdfs root = Yes
msdfs proxy =

</code>

Geez... :P