Hello to all, I am somewhat of a newbie and am in school for Information System Security. I have a final project for my Securing Linux platforms class, I have to make a file server for a small company. We are using Fedora 13 on VMWare due to its similarities to RHEL. I have installed Apache, with ssl enabled, Samba and have edited my .conf file to include samba shares. I can ping from my laptop to the VM and vice versa, but when i try to connect to the sever from my windows 7 laptop it says that i cannot connect at this time. My instructor was stumped last night so i thought i would give this a shot. Any suggestions?

Also on another note I have a friend who has a Debian file server and he gave me a copy of all of the commands he used to get it up and running. I followed this and have a very secure box that works but i cannot use this for my final project because the school wants it to be as close to RHEL as possible. My question is (and i understand that configuring Apache in Debian is different than in Fedora)could I use some of the other commands for samba on Fedora, and the IPtables commands as well?

Thank you in advance for any help that is given I appreciate it.

Linux Newbie s.mm

If you need to mimic RHEL then you should use Centos instead of Fedora.


While it is nice for quick checks using ICMP does not equal client-side diagnostics like 'host $server; tcptraceroute $address port; curl -v $address:443/path/item.ext' and looking at network, firewall and daemon configurations and process and log output on the server. Also descriptions of errors are not as interesting and useful as posting complete and exact error messages. The more information the better.


Which commands exactly? Please be verbose.

thank you that is very helpful, and after much headache and research, i have found that i can connect with my windows server 2003 VM no problems, it is just windows 7 that seems to have issues with samba. I have also connected with my xp VM. here is the exact error code....hang on.....ok that is weird i can now connect and all it took was for me to connect to server 2003 and to reset my router. I am now confused.
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"If you need to mimic RHEL then you should use Centos instead of Fedora."

Unfortunatly we have to use the flavor our instructor wants us to, i have heard from many people that CentOS is better than fedora but i can only work with what the curriculum of the class calls for. (maybe when this class is done i will give it a try.)

the commands i am asking about are all that apply to Samba, i guess my question really is Does Samba have distro specific commands or are they the same no mater what flavor you use? because there are too many to list to ask specifically. I used most of them today and they all seemed to work fine so i assume that they work, but you know what assuming does. so i guess i am just being cautious.

thank you in advance

s.mm

If you can find the man pages and documentation (/usr/share/doc/) for daemons and commands you run there's no need for assuming things.