Samba won't dance

[max]

Claude Jones wrote:
> It's no longer funny
> 
> Each release, I hope things improve...they don't
> 
> I can run distro after distro, from live CD's or installations, and networking 
> either just works, or is easily configured...PCLinuxOS, MEPIS, Ubuntu, and 
> many more come to mind
> 
> For years, Samba has not worked out of the box in Fedora, nor has it been easy 
> to get working
> 
> Somebody tell me I'm wrong - I'll gladly accept disdainful insults while 
> prostrating myself in abject submission
> Ric, write me a lament...
> 
> OK - what I want and what I've done:
> 
> I have a home lan here, one Linux box and one Vista  and three XP machines.
> I have configured Samba using different tools, including the Redhat GUI-redux, 
> the KDE Control Center GUI, Webmin's GUI, and have even looked at the 
> smb.conf file. I want to simply share my home directory and the printer that 
> is attached to this machine, and authentication mode is set that way, no user 
> or domain authentication.
> 
> On the firewall, I've allowed smb traffic on ports 137-139 and 445, and have 
> also tried to make things work by turning firewalling off altogether using 
> Firestarter, the simple GUI based configuration tool. I've confirmed the 
> latter, that all traffic was being accepted after stopping the firewall, with 
> the iptables --list command in a terminal
> 
> I found some avc Selinux messages of this type: 
> 
> *********************
> SELinux has denied the samba daemon access to users' home directories. Someone 
> is attempting to access your home directories via your samba daemon. If you 
> only setup samba to share non-home directories, this probably signals a 
> intrusion attempt. For more information on SELinux integration with samba, 
> look at the samba_selinux man page. (man samba_selinux) Allowing AccessIf you 
> want samba to share home directories you need to turn on the 
> samba_enable_home_dirs boolean: "setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1" 
> 
> and this:
> 
> Summary: SELinux is preventing the nmbd from using potentially mislabeled 
> files (/home/cj/.xsession-errors).
> 
> *********************
> I tried running the suggested command in the first message, nothing changed. I 
> just tried running the suggested command for the second message, but nothing 
> has changed. 
> 
> What's happenning?
>>From my Vista machine, if I go to the network tab in Explorer, I get a 
> display, sometimes, of all the other machines on the network - it comes and 
> goes (I've heard of issues with Vista networking and haven't fully researched 
> them so this may be that). When it does show the other machines, I can get to 
> the XP machines that have shares, but if I click on my Linux box, I just get 
> a can't connect error. On my Fedora box, if I type smb:/ in the Konqueror 
> window, it shows me two networks (my laptop is configured to auto-connect to 
> the domain at work so that's not surprising), but if I click on the home 
> workgroup, I just get an error. I tried smbk4 and it got a little farther - 
> it lists a couple of the XP machines, but on one, it says it says the list of 
> shares cannot be retrieved, and on another, it lists the shares but can't 
> mount them...
> 
> I haven't done the full Monte drill of search and search this time, I humble 
> confess. I just wish it wasn't this hard in Fedora. A few simple words of 
> wise guidance in the configuration screen would suffice ("don't forget you 
> need to also..." sorts of things). Why is it that so many other distros 
> simply work, and Fedora doesn't? Is this a design choice? Is there a solid 
> security or legal issue at play here? 
> 
> OK - have at me folks, I can take it, and I won't fuss back - 
> 

I have scrolled through and tried to read all the posts, there is alot 
of info and maybe you covered this already I forget if I saw it in there 
but I don't think anyone asked if the services required for Samba were 
running? Yes it may sound like a dumb question and no I don't think your 
stupid but it never hurts to make sure.  I believe its smb service and 
nmb service.

Max