Cannot Access Fedora Shares - Page 2

Brianc51 · #16 8th October 2010, 12:33 AM

Hi Glenn,

I have the new smb.conf, and have tested.
result:
"The network path was not found".

I assume the host name is the name of the Fedora box (Trout).

***glennzo*** · #17 8th October 2010, 12:46 AM

The hostname is what you see when you type at the command prompt

Code:

[glenn@leonardo ~>$ hostname
leonardo

And probably what's shown at your command prompt.

Is the firewall turned off? If it is on you can try turning it off again or you can open System > Administration > Firewall and make sure Samba and Samba Client are checked as allowed.

Brianc51 · #18 8th October 2010, 01:04 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

Is the firewall turned off? If it is on you can try turning it off again or you can open System > Administration > Firewall and make sure Samba and Samba Client are checked as allowed.

Both Samba and Samba Client are checked. I also just tried with firewall disabled, still nothing.

Thanks for all this effort Glenn,

Brian

***glennzo*** · #19 8th October 2010, 01:58 AM

You're welcome. We must be missing something obvious but I have to call it a night. It's getting late and these ageing eyes are getting tired.

Some leisure reading for you. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/. I'll expect a full report on my desk in the morning

Brianc51 · #20 8th October 2010, 05:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

You're welcome. We must be missing something obvious but I have to call it a night. It's getting late and these ageing eyes are getting tired.

Some leisure reading for you. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/. I'll expect a full report on my desk in the morning

Thanks, I'll give that a read. I hope to have some progress to report.

Thanks again,
Brian

---------- Post added at 09:47 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 06:11 PM GMT ----------

HI. Problem solved!

I read a bunch more about Samba which was good, but didn't feel like much applied to the problem or was new to what we tried. So I went back to an earlier suggestion that you made, regarding SELinux. I mentioned that I new very little about it, but it occurred to me that if you brought it up, it must be important.
So I took the time to learn something about SELinux, and once I figured I got the basic idea, I started looking and sure enough, there are options to allow/block Samba from read/write to several different directory options.

Getting stuck on a problem is very frustrating, but it's a good way to learn. Thanks a bunch Glenn for leading me through the process and letting me know what questions needed to be asked. I would likely be stuck for weeks had you not helped me out.

Thanks again for the help.
Cheers,

Brian

Sicinthemind · #21 12th October 2010, 09:28 PM

Could you run the command:

getfacl /temp/ and post the results of the ACL list.

uaPtah · #22 11th July 2011, 11:51 PM

Guys, thanks a lot for this discussion!

I was stuck with the same problem of sharing a folder in Fedora 15 for couple of weeks. Couple clicks in SELinux GUI administration tool fixed it all!!

Now I feel some anger toward Fedora developers (even though they did an awesome job) that they did not let SELinux to allow Samba to share folders by default.

Sicinthemind · #23 12th July 2011, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uaPtah

Guys, thanks a lot for this discussion!

I was stuck with the same problem of sharing a folder in Fedora 15 for couple of weeks. Couple clicks in SELinux GUI administration tool fixed it all!!

Now I feel some anger toward Fedora developers (even though they did an awesome job) that they did not let SELinux to allow Samba to share folders by default.

There's a lot of security functions by default.

marylue · #24 23rd December 2011, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uaPtah

Guys, thanks a lot for this discussion!

I was stuck with the same problem of sharing a folder in Fedora 15 for couple of weeks. Couple clicks in SELinux GUI administration tool fixed it all!!

Now I feel some anger toward Fedora developers (even though they did an awesome job) that they did not let SELinux to allow Samba to share folders by default.

Would be nice to know what you have clicked to get it going mate.

***DBelton*** · #25 24th December 2011, 02:01 AM

All you need to do is to look in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file and it tells you all you need to do to get samba and selinux set up to work properly.

It gives the commands. You just need to copy/paste

It's just that the context is set differently depending upon how you wish to share things with samba, that it's impossible for them to get things set up to work right out of the box.

marylue · #26 24th December 2011, 03:51 AM

there we go! reading is gold, eh?

thanks for the simple push

***DBelton*** · #27 24th December 2011, 04:29 AM

yep

But it still can be confusing after reading through the smb.conf comments, too. Selinux can be confusing until you really dig into it and learn how things work, which most people don't or won't do.

At least after reading through the smb.conf file, you should figure out more directed question to ask if you still need help, and you should get someone that knows the answers.

A directed question is much easier to answer than a "samba won't work with selinux"

marylue · #28 24th December 2011, 03:58 PM

for now no help needed but i know where you're coming from! i'll keep that in mind. wish you some great holidays!

Sicinthemind · #29 25th December 2011, 01:02 AM

Indubiously! I like the facepalm smiley... I'll have to notate that for future use! XD

uaPtah · #30 22nd March 2012, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marylue

Would be nice to know what you have clicked to get it going mate.

Marylue, you can check following thread for more info:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266706