Fedora Core 3 & Samba

[crussell]

Help. Help. Help.

SO, I got FC3 installed and everything's running like a dream ... except for Samba ..

It's installed OK, it's running on the Linux box and I can see the linux box from Network Neighbourhood on my XP Pro PC, but when I click on the FC3 box in Network Neighbourhood I donlt see any of the shared directories on the linux box - in fact file explorer just shows blank. I know the shared directories exist on the FC box and I know there are files them, so can anyone help shed any light on why they might not be showing up ?

TIA

Chris

[Nigel]

The usual reason is that your XP username isn't set up on the Samba box... try running SWAT (Samba remote administration - just point your browser at http://localhost:901 on your Fedora box) and making sure that the username and password you use on the XP box has been set.

[Andy]

Hi Chris,

You can actually do this very easily if you don't use SWAT

Basically there are a couple of things you need to make sure you have switched on. First of all, if you are using a firewall on your FC3 computer you need to open up the ports for Samba, which are ports 135-139. You do this by going to the Security Level option and clicking on the firewall tab. In the other ports box the correct syntax is:

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135:tcp, 136:tcp 137:tcp, 138:tcp, 139:tcp

Click OK and your firewall will be ready for Samba.

Next go to a command prompt (user or root) and type

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rpm -q system-config-samba

to find out if you have the Fedora Samba Configuration interface. If not, use

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yum install system-config-samba

to download and install it.

Under system settings you should see another sub-menu which should contain a Samba option. Click this to bring up FC's Samba config tool. Check to see that your folder is listed and select it with a single click. Click edit and make sure that Is VIsible and is Writeable are checked. Go to users and select available to all users (unless you have already created a Samba account this is the best way). Click OK and then exit the Samba config tool.

You should now be able to access the share across the network!

Let me know if this doesn't work and I'll try something else for you.

Andy