OSX- Fedora network problem

[Eric Johns]

first let me describe the setup I have.

I have an G3 ibook running 10.3.9 using an airport card which is 
connected to a Netgear router. The Desktop is running Fedora 4 and is 
connected to the router via an ethernet cable. Firewalls are turned off 
and I'm using samba, To cap this off I am rather new to Linux and 
networking.

Using the desktop I can see my home directory on the ibook and do 
everything I want (that part is great)
while on the ibook I can connect to the Desktop I can ssh, ftp with no 
problem but I can not see the home directory on the desktop. Every now 
and then I see in the Network folder an icon for the desktop computer 
but it's faded and when I click on it I get "The alias "ODEN" could not 
be opened, because the original item cannot be found" when I try to 
connect to the server with the address smb://username@ipaddress/share I 
get "could not connect to server because the name or password is not 
correct"

I have searched the net looking for an answer, but I guess the problem 
is with me and not a bug because it seems I am the only person who has 
this problem.

Any ideas on how this idiot can fix it ... :)
thanks

[micheal]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 01:23 +1000, Eric Johns wrote:
> first let me describe the setup I have.
>
> I have an G3 ibook running 10.3.9 using an airport card which is 
> connected to a Netgear router. The Desktop is running Fedora 4 and is 
> connected to the router via an ethernet cable. Firewalls are turned off 
> and I'm using samba, To cap this off I am rather new to Linux and 
> networking.
>
> Using the desktop I can see my home directory on the ibook and do 
> everything I want (that part is great)
> while on the ibook I can connect to the Desktop I can ssh, ftp with no 
> problem but I can not see the home directory on the desktop. Every now 
> and then I see in the Network folder an icon for the desktop computer 
> but it's faded and when I click on it I get "The alias "ODEN" could not 
> be opened, because the original item cannot be found" when I try to 
> connect to the server with the address smb://username@ipaddress/share I 
> get "could not connect to server because the name or password is not 
> correct"
>
> I have searched the net looking for an answer, but I guess the problem 
> is with me and not a bug because it seems I am the only person who has 
> this problem.
>
> Any ideas on how this idiot can fix it ... :)
> thanks

Ahh, Samba can give me fits at times.  First I may be talking out of my
ass, but since OSX is Unix like you may want to look into setting up
cross NFS shares instead.  Samba is really for trying to interface
Unix-Windows, and NFS may not be as complicated.  However I know little
about OSX, so that may not be an easy task.

The first thing I would ask is if SELinux is enabled on the desktop. I
would also like to see the output of

smbclient -L [ hostname of the desktop ]
nmblookup [hostname of the desktop ]

from the OSX side.

Micheal

[Eric Johns]

micheal wrote:
> The first thing I would ask is if SELinux is enabled on the desktop. I
> would also like to see the output of
>
> smbclient -L [ hostname of the desktop ]
> nmblookup [hostname of the desktop ]
>
> from the OSX side.

SELinux is disabled
and

Domain=[ODEN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2]

Sharename       Type      Comment
          ---------       ----      -------
          eric             Disk      Oden
          IPC$            IPC       IPC Service ()
         ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service ()
Domain=[ODEN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2]

Server               Comment
                    ---------            -------

Workgroup            Master
                     ---------            -------

[freya:~] eric% nmblookup oden
querying oden on 192.168.0.255
192.168.0.3 oden<00> WORKGROUP         ODEN
==================
I hope you can see somthing .. :)

thanks for looking

[micheal]

Thanks for replying

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 12:10 +1000, Eric Johns wrote:
> micheal wrote:
> > The first thing I would ask is if SELinux is enabled on the desktop. I
> > would also like to see the output of
> >
> > smbclient -L [ hostname of the desktop ]
> > nmblookup [hostname of the desktop ]
> >
> > from the OSX side.
>
> SELinux is disabled

So that eliminates any restrictions there
> and
>
> Domain=[ODEN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2]
>       Sharename       Type      Comment
>       ---------       ----      -------
>       eric             Disk      Oden
>       IPC$            IPC       IPC Service ()
>      ADMIN$          IPC       IPC Service ()
>
> Domain=[ODEN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.14a-2]
>                Server               Comment
>                 ---------            -------
>
>            Workgroup            Master
>                  ---------            -------
>
>
>
> [freya:~] eric% nmblookup oden
> querying oden on 192.168.0.255
> 192.168.0.3 oden<00> WORKGROUP         ODEN
> ==================
> I hope you can see somthing .. :)

It looks like the Fedora box has the proper ports open, because you are
getting the proper response back. I am beginning to think this might be
a username issue. There are two ways you can troubleshoot this.

Run testparm on the Fedora Box, this will make sure that your smb.conf
settings are correct.
> From the OSX side try connecting through the terminal.

smbclient //oden/eric -U [linux username]

It should prompt for a password. If so type the linux user's password.
you should get a > prompt.  A dir command at this point should list the
files in that directory.

If this works then your problem is OSX is not connecting to fedora with
the correct user name.  The easiest way to do this IMO is to map the OSX
user to the Linux user in /etc/samba/smbusers. Let me know if you need
help doing this.

I would also like to mention installing swat on the Fedora box.  Its is
a great tool for setting up Samba to work properly and to perform all
the necessary user setups.
> thanks for looking

HTH

Micheal