Samba/Fedora 8 problems
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 3 14:45:25 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 23:22 -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
> I'm having problems getting Samba to work on Fedora 8.
> Perhaps someone has an idea.
>
> Here's the simple smb.conf I'm using:
>
> [global]
> workgroup = WORKGROUP
> security = users
> wins support = yes
>
> [work]
> comment = Work Area
> path = /export/work
> public = yes
> guest ok = yes
> writable = yes
> readonly = no
> printable = no
> browseable = yes
>
> SELinux is disabled, no firewall.
>
> When I run "smbclient -L localhost -U%" I get the following:
>
> Sharename Type Comment
> --------- ---- -------
> work Disk Work Area
> IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.27a-0.fc8)
>
> Server Comment
> --------- -------
>
> Workgroup Master
> --------- -------
>
> I would expect the workgroup name and server name to be listed.
>
> findsmb reports Samba servers on other systems, but not localhost.
>
> I've tried with "security = share" and without the "wins" line.
> I've also tried a working smb.conf from a FC 5 system.
> I created a user with smbpasswd. None of this makes any difference.
>
> I noticed that nmbd is started by /etc/init.d/smb on the FC 5
> system, but that F8 doesn't. Not sure what that means.
>
> Any suggestions?
----
shouldn't that be
security = user
?
smbclient -L $HOSTNAME
where $HOSTNAME is the name of your computer though localhost or ip
should work. You don't need to authenticate (a user)
what errors do you get when you do...
testparm -s
Craig
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