Win7 can't view Samba shares in F12

[fordperf]

I just installed a F12 server at home, replacing a FC9 server that ran samba to share media files. I had no problems connecting to samba on FC9 (the version escapes me, sorry) however Win7 seems to be fighting the F12 samba (v3.4.7) trying to do the same thing.

I create a directory share, it shows up in windows explorer, but when I try and open it win7 tells me I dont have rights to it.

I created a printer share via samba, and successfully connected to it from win7 and use it as my default printer, and that works OK.

I know win7 uses smb2 as its samba protocol, and that might be some of the problem (or all of it), but I'm not sure. I also have googled and saw that people have had had issues with samba as their domain controller while trying to join win7 into the domain, however I do not use win7 as a pdc at all. The solution for this seems to be registry hacks, but I am not sure they apply to me as I haven't seen anyone correlate it.

Tailing the logs, this is what I see when I try and explore the file share from win7:

[2010/04/26 13:09:56,  1] smbd/notify_inotify.c:421(inotify_watch)
  inotify_add_watch returned Permission denied

Now I have edited smb.conf manually in the past but to try anything I've even played with webmin to see all the options I might be missing, still my conf is fairly simple:

[global]
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	netbios name = Whatever
	cups options = raw
	load printers = yes
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY
	workgroup = mygroup
	os level = 20
	username map = /etc/samba/user.map
	encrypt passwords = yes
	security = share
	passdb backend = tdbsam
	max log size = 50

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	browseable = no
	printable = yes
	valid users = john


[movies]

	valid users = john,@movies
	writeable = yes
	path = /storage/movies

I see the movies share in win7, but it doesn't let me in. I tried disabling requiring 128bit encryption for NTLM as one suggestion but that didn't work. Also changing local security policies to send LM & NTLM responses, and that didn't work.

I'm humbly open to suggestions.

[fordperf]

bump. anyone??

[matthewlee]

hi,
I also have the same problem and solve it just now.
1)make sure the user right is correct
2)check the firewall setting, set it to allow samba and samba clent.
3)disable SELinux, OR change SELinux security context
#chcon -R -t samba_share_t '/storage/movies'
#/etc/init.d/smb restart

if still doesn't work, pls also check here: http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/co...tm?p=339270746

[fordperf]

Seems I forgot to disable SELinux Thanks for reminding me. I don't know how I overlooked something that obvious!