Samba Problem - Almost there

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Nov 30 16:07:12 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:45 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> OK, I'm not sure what change did it, but I can connect to *SOME* of my
> shares. I have one more that I can't seem to connect to. The definition
> in smb.conf is
> 
> 	[windows]
> 	case sensitive = no
> 	msdfs proxy = no
> 	read only = no
> 	comment = windows directory
> 	path = /windows
> 
> 
> This is the vfat partition holding my windows setup. The fstab entry
> makes the partition readable / writable by anyone. When I try to attach
> this partition, I get a "The Network Name Cannot be found."
> 
> Obviously, the windows box knows about the name as it displays it for me
> to select - and the setup looks right to me. What am I missing?
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possibly selinux block - is selinux active?

is the share visible if you try from the linux client...

smbclient -L NETBIOS_NAME

does executing...

testparm -s

reveal any errors?

Craig




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