Trying to export a home directory to Windows 7 starter

[colin-adams]

Hello,

I'm trying to export my wife's home directory so that she can read and write to it from her netbook running Windows 7 (starter). I've got Samba running, with the following edits in the default smb.conf:

workgroup = WORKGROUP

(because selecting Computer application on my wife's netbook showed this as the workgroup name)

and:

[haiwa]
comment = Haiwa's home directory
browseable = no
path = /home/haiwa
writable = yes
valid users = haiwa
create mask = 0755

I only want this to work within the home wifi setup (so I've done nothing to open a port on the firewall).

Smaba is running, and no errors show in the log.

On Windows (Computer application) I turned on network file discovery and printer sharing). But nothing is visible under Network.

I don't know if this is a problem with the samba setup (I've never looked at samba before), or the Windows side (I am not familiar with windows networking file/sharing - or indeed much about Windows at all). So any suggestions will be welcome.

---------- Post added at 03:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:52 AM ----------

Although it doesn't tell me to do so in chapter 16 of the Fedora 17 system adminstrators guide, I guessed I might have to also edit /etc/samba/lmhosts, and start the nmb service.

So I added the line:

192.168.2.201 LINUX

to lmhosts, and I also changed the definition of [haiwa] to say browseable = yes. Then I restarted both smb and nmb, and rebooted Windows. But I still can't see anything under Computer->Networks (other than the notebook itself).

---------- Post added at 03:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:42 AM ----------

I also tried adding:
wins support = yes

but that too made no apparent difference.

[leigh123cyprus]

SHARING HOME DIRECTORIES
By default SELinux policy turns off SELinux sharing of home directories If you are setting up this machine as a Samba server and wish to share the home directories, you need to set the samba_enable_home_dirs boolean.

setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/14195.html

[colin-adams]

Originally Posted by leigh123cyprus

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/14195.html

But I've disabled SELinux anyway. So it can't be that.

[DBelton]

You would still have to open a port in the firewall running on your Fedora box, even if it is just on the local network. You wouldn't need to open a port on the firewall on your router, but you still need to open it on your Fedora machine.

[colin-adams]

Originally Posted by DBelton

You would still have to open a port in the firewall running on your Fedora box, even if it is just on the local network. You wouldn't need to open a port on the firewall on your router, but you still need to open it on your Fedora machine.

Ah, that was it. I always forget to disable the iptables service with a new installation.

Now it's seeing the network, but refusing to recognise the password. I guess I'll be able to work that out.

Thanks.

---------- Post added at 08:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:01 PM ----------

Originally Posted by colin-adams

Ah, that was it. I always forget to disable the iptables service with a new installation.

Now it's seeing the network, but refusing to recognise the password. I guess I'll be able to work that out.

Thanks.

But I don't seem to be able to get this to work.

On both linux and fedora, the name haiwa is defined, with the same password in each case. So in /etc/smbusers I put:

haiwa = haiwa

I also tried:

haiwa = HAIWA-NOTEBOOK\haiwa

But in both cases credentials are refused. I can't see any messages in either /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure, nor anything under /var/log/samba. I can't find out what I am supposed to do in this case (I'm guessing it has something to do with the domain name on the windows 7 client).