windows 7 cant see my linux server with samba

[qwert]

Hello,
I am using Samba on Fedora server. My problem is, that windows computer cant see my linux server nor samba share folder.

SELINUX and firewall are disabled.
My smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server Version %v
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam

[share]
comment = Ubuntu File Server Share
path = /share
browsable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
create mask = 0755

Thank you for help.

[scott32746]

Hello,

/share you said is a folder. you would need the path to the folder.
check permission of folder

path=/path/to/folder/share

[qwert]

Thank you for the answer.

But the folder share is located in the root of filesystem.
Like: "/root", "/home", "/var", "/etc"

---------- Post added at 08:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 PM ----------

The owner of this folder is normal user "fish" from group "fish". Chmod is set for development reason to 777. Is there anything else I should set up?

[scott32746]

Best not to use /root, /etc, /var
The best thing to do if you have the space is setup a partition would like to share
777 is not a good thing. But is up to you.

if you have a folder called fish in /var then you need to set path to

path=/var/fish
And I am not totally sure if samba can do just a folder. I have always done partitions


I have just tried a folder and it worked here is my setting

[Public]
comment = All Users
path = /home/UserID/Public
valid users = UserID
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes
write list = @UserID

For me when I mounted on my windows system I did \\my_ip_address\Public
would would use share

[qwert]

Thank you for the answer.
Could you please explain to me what should I do to setup Samba with new separate partition?

[scott32746]

Hmm,

You are going to need to check if there is any free space available.
create a partition, run mkfs.ext4, create mount point, add fstab
change path to new mount point

restart samba
service smb retstart


If you are running LVM steps are the same but different

[qwert]

Thanks. Now it works a little bit better. I can see my Linux computer on windows box.
But I still cant acces my files. Message appears: "Host 192.168.0.156/share was not found"
(192.168.0.156 is address of linux server)

[scott32746]

cd into share folder
give output of "pwd"
and show your smb.conf setup

[qwert]

pwd from folder /home/miso/share is:

/home/miso/share

smb.conf is:

[global]

workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Samba Server Version %v
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = user

[share]
path = /home/miso/share
comment = All Users
valid users = UserID
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0771
writable = yes
write list = @UserID

[scott32746]

Need to change UserID to the ID that needs access
example:
valid users = miso
you can add more than one id to the line if needed

on windows map network

\\192.168.0.156\share

make sure workgroup is the same in samba and windows machine

[qwert]

It is working! I dont know how, but it is working!
Which CHMOD should I setup for shared folder please?

[scott32746]

not sure what you are asking
CHMOD ?

[qwert]

There is chmod 777 on my share folder now. But as you told me this is not good.
Which chmod should I setup for this directory, please?