file sharing

[Epps, Aaron M.]

	That's something I've had a ? About ever since FC1 was released, why doesn't smb:/// work in Nautilus?  It seems to be a feature regression to me, considering that it worked fine in RH9.  So what is different about FC1 that causes this problem, is it a Nautilus, Gnome-VFS, or Samba 3.x problem?  In RH9 all you had to do was edit your smb.conf, start up samba and make sure that ports 137-139 were opened in your firewall.

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From: stephan schutter [mailto:rhl at farorbit.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:17 AM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: file sharing

Sorry about the tone... I a relaying my managers questions... They want something that just works... They read about Linux and how great it is; but this does not match their experience when sitting down in front of a Linux machine. 

This is a desktop related issue, naturally. Knowing that Apple uses a UNIX core and manages to make it easy to use, they wonder when the Linux vendors are going to do the same. 

I am frequently challenged by managers and my colleagues: "why do they have to make it so difficult?"

This makes Linux a hard sell for me. 

So: why not have a default configuration that works? By default, when you install FC1, FC1 has these issues:

1. When clicking on the network browser, you can not actually browse the network. Instead you get an error about wins servers... Windows works fine.

2. Name resolution does not work correctly because FC1 does not pick up all the information from the DHCP (win2k DDNS) servers (wins, multiple search domains etc.) I am sure that somehow it is Microsoft's fault, but it needs to work none the less to be accepted.

3. Checking the SMB authentication box and entering the right domain name and server etc. does not result in being able to log on using the AD credentials. It is misleading to have such a dialogue box that does not do what it says... or have any information of what else to do...

Stephan


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On Thursday 15 January 2004 03:27, stephan schutter wrote:

>> To not do this, you have to mount the smb share using smbfs. See 
>> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html for instructions.

> I have tried these... besides being complicated (because only root can 
> mount these and the syntax is cryptic); it does not work in a Windows 
> 2000 Active Directory network. I know it "can work" because Xandros 
> has this working somehow. When may we expect Fedora to support basic 
> file sharing
in
> a corporate network?

If you're working with Xandros, use Xandros -- or at a minimum examine its Samba configuration so you are empowered to duplicate it.  
/etc/samba/smb.conf is the likely place to start.

I don't mean to sound cranky, but the challenging tone of your question is more appropriate for vendors who actually owe you something.  If anyone is helping here it sure isn't because you paid them.

- -Andy

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