Samba problems - browsing resolved

[Dan]

I am a new convert to linux. I thought id give it an honest try, setup a
dedicated box. I have been a windows user my whole life.

There are a few things i have learnt so far over the past few weeks into my
transition.

- Gui tools seldomly work 100% properly (I enjoy using the terminal anyway)
- Linux does crash (Some linux ppl say it dosnt :D)
- I miss playing World Of Warcraft.

:D

On 2/14/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Monday 13 February 2006 16:06, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Mon February 13 2006 10:32 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I'm still not sure why it wasn't working, since testparm seemed happy
> > > enough, but I went ahead and defined a few shared directories, and now
> > > everything is working correctly. Most odd! I had thought to get
> 'homes'
> > > working first, then add things in later.
> >
> > I've found Samba, as implemented in Fedora, to be one of the most
> daunting
> > aspects of the distro. Having used PCLinuxOS (a Mandrake derivative),
> and
> > MEPIS (a debian derivative), I find it strange that Fedora hasn't
> addressed
> > this. The documentation is at best confusing - I've even printed out the
> > entire 1100 page Samba manual. Things don't work as described, you do
> > something, seemingly the same way a dozen times, and then, on the next
> try,
> > it works. It's just too damned hard - I hope the issue gets addressed. I
> > was supposed to post a RFE for feature enhancement, but I never got
> around
> > to it. With MEPIS and PCLinuxOS, Samba just works. In PCLinuxOS you turn
> it
> > on with a simple interface that asks you a few questions and you're
> done.
> > With MEPIS, it comes up working - if you install to a machine on a
> Windows
> > network, when you reboot, you see the network. Perhaps there are
> security
> > concerns, but, these should be addressed, and the whole process
> simplified.
> > I've seen many threads such as this over the past 20 months on this
> list,
> > so this is not just me...
> >
> Actually, when I first implemented Samba I couldn't get it to work by
> using
> any of the GUI tools.  In the end someone helped me off-list to edit my
> smb.conf.  I had no more problem then, until the version of Mandrake that
> moved from samba2 to samba3, when suddenly some things didn't work
> properly
> and no-one seemed to know why.  Eventually I got them sorted, but as you
> remark, it was a case where I never really knew what changed.
>
> In this case I found an archived copy of my old smb.conf and edited the
> new
> one.  Most of the changes I made didn't seem significant, the one
> exception
> being changing the security setting from 'share' to 'user'.  Perhaps
> someone
> will see this and realise/explain the significance of that in this
> context.
>
> Over the years I've relied heavily on the O'Reilly Using Samba book.  The
> newer ones are heavily biased towards larger corporate settings, or at
> least
> the ones I've seen have been.
>
> Anne
>
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