Samba

[adrien1977]

Hi
I installed in a remote machine fedora core 2.
It has the minimum installed in it( No X server).
I've been struggling for now 1 week to make that damn samba to work and I still do not have anything working.
I tried to setup the damn thing with SWAT WEBMIN and nothing.
So I start now to lose patience.
I do not know if it has something to do with windows XP or Fedora or anyting else.

The samba version is the last one, 3.0.4 I think

I can see in my network places in windows my samba server but everytime that I am going to click on it or try to mount a drive it is not going to work.
It says
\\Sergent is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if ou have access permission
Windows cannot find the network path. Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off. If windows still cannot find the network path, contact your network admin.

Please help....

PS: Now I gotta go but I should be back in 2 hours

Thanks a bunch dudes

[jimbo]

Hmmm... could be a few things... really can't tell without seeing your samba.conf file.

It's probably something to do with the "security=" directive.
There are some really good HOWTOs over at the samba.org website. I suspect it's more of a samba configuration issue than a Fedora issue.

PS. Be sure to read the sections on Windows XP there are some issues with the "crippled" windows networking in XP home edition.

[adrien1977]

Well I've been reading a bunch of HOW TOs. Seriously. I've tried a bunch of stuff. Reinstalling Samba, tried SWAT and webmin but I do not have energy anymore.
Here is the last smb.conf file.


# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
# Date: 2004/05/25 19:28:43

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = HOME NETWORK
os level = 20
ldap ssl = no
interfaces = eth0
security = user

[web]
path = /home/adrien/www
valid users = adrien, root
write list = adrien, root
read only = No

[fedora]
comment = root path
path = /
valid users = root
read only = No