unable to access my fedora shares from windows

AbuShokry · #1 18th November 2007, 07:16 PM

Hi, I have 2 PCs one running Fedora core 6 and the other is Windows XP sp2. from the Linux side the Network between these two machines seems fine, I can access the Windows shares. But sadly I can't do the opposite, I can't access the Linux machine from the Windows.

when i try to ping the Linux machine from Windows, it responds.

I'm using Samba 3.0.24-3

Here is the share definitions part from the smb.conf

Code:

 [homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
read only = no

# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
; [netlogon]
;   comment = Network Logon Service
;   path = /usr/local/samba/lib/netlogon
;   guest ok = yes
;   writable = no
;   share modes = no

;	comment = test
;	path = /mnt/1
;	writable = no
;	share modes = yes

# Un-comment the following to provide a specific roving profile share
# the default is to use the user's home directory
;[Profiles]
;    path = /usr/local/samba/profiles
;    browseable = no
;    guest ok = yes


# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
browseable = no
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = no
printable = yes

[Picso]
path = /mnt/3/Pics/
guest ok = yes

[SPEEDTOUCH33]
path = /home/AbuShokry/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip_FILES
guest ok = yes

Thank you.

***glennzo*** · #2 18th November 2007, 07:46 PM

In a terminal, try smbpasswd -a username. If the user on the Windows box is called abu then type smbpasswd -a abu. Press enter when prompted for passwords. Restart samba, /sbin/service smb restart, and try to login from Windows.

AbuShokry · #3 18th November 2007, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennzo

In a terminal, try smbpasswd -a username. If the user on the Windows box is called abu then type smbpasswd -a abu. Press enter when prompted for passwords. Restart samba, /sbin/service smb restart, and try to login from Windows.

It didn't work either, But when I opened the the samba log files and checked my XP machine log file I found the following message:

[2007/11/18 22:02:54, 0] smbd/negprot.c:reply_nt1(328)
reply_nt1: smb signing is incompatible with share level security !

I thought that this might be related to the firewall and the SELinux, so I disabled them, But

still it didn't work.

scottro · #4 18th November 2007, 08:57 PM

Hrrm, maybe change security model from share to user?

Also, I think glennzo didn'tmention this--with the smbpasswd -a thingie, you have make sure that the password you give abu is the password abu uses on the Windows machine.
For example, you can have abu on the Fedora box with a password of 1234 and on the Windows box with a password of 4321. When you use the smbpasswd -a, you give abu the 4321 password, NOT the 1234 password.

***Dangermouse*** · #5 18th November 2007, 09:23 PM

Hello probably a silly question, but are your linux shares on a fat partition or something like that as windows cannot read linux partitions by default.

AbuShokry · #6 19th November 2007, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottro

Hrrm, maybe change security model from share to user?

Also, I think glennzo didn'tmention this--with the smbpasswd -a thingie, you have make sure that the password you give abu is the password abu uses on the Windows machine.
For example, you can have abu on the Fedora box with a password of 1234 and on the Windows box with a password of 4321. When you use the smbpasswd -a, you give abu the 4321 password, NOT the 1234 password.

I already did that. The problem is that I don't get even a login window when i try to access the samba server, Windows just says

\\10.0.0.3
The network path was not found.

But as I mentioned, I can ping this machine with no problems.

and yes "Dangermouse" the shared folders are on vfat partitions.

scottro · #7 19th November 2007, 12:52 PM

AHA. I might have the answer.

You have smb running but.... (dramatic pause) do you also have nmb running?

Check with
pgrep nmb

If not, then

/etc/init.d/nmb start
To have it start at boot, assuming you want samba always running

/sbin/chckconfig nmb on

Often, we forget to do that. The nmb program is the one that more or less announces "Hey, I'm here" to Windows machines.

A quick PS. You should have mentioned that from the start.

AbuShokry · #8 19th November 2007, 06:12 PM

Ummm, Actually I don't have a service named nmb in my Fedora !

xpan · #9 24th November 2007, 08:15 PM

Hi.

Similar problems here:

this is my share

[public]
path = /home/xpan/public
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes

but I can´t connect from my windows machine. It says that I don´t have permission to do so

even if I try to create a new network drive on this: \\192.168.1.64\public

it says the same thing...

any ideas?

I have also tried to do what this user says:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f8.html#samba