samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

[Massimo Maiurana]

Bill Crawford, il 27/08/2008 18:53, scrisse:
> Try "-t smb" rather than "smbfs" (like "-t ext3" not "-t ext3fs").
> 

I could try it when I'll be back, but I doubt it would work.
the driver name is "smbfs", and the driver name for ext3 is indeed 
"ext3"... even "man mount" refers to it as "smbfs".

I just did a few tests on my home pc, a slack box running a custom 
2.6.26 kernel and samba 3.0.23. this is my home smb.conf:
[global]
    workgroup = Home
    server string = Samba Server
    security = share
    hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
    load printers = no
    guest account = nobody
    log file = /var/log/samba.%m
    max log size = 50
    passdb backend = tdbsam
    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
    dns proxy = no
[homes]
    comment = Home Directories
    browseable = no
    writable = yes
[printers]
    comment = All Printers
    path = /var/spool/samba
    browseable = no
    guest ok = no
    writable = no
    printable = yes
[public]
    comment = Public Stuff
    path = /mnt/storage/public
    public = yes
    guest ok = yes
    writable = yes

I use samba here only to access some videos from my set-top-box, and 
with this very basic configuration I'm able to access locally to it 
using smbclient either with password and without, the only 
difference is that without password it warns me "server not using 
user level security and no password supplied", but it still gives me 
access.

Why can't I achieve the same thing on fedora?
at this point I'm pretty sure it is a bug, to me the key is the 
"tdb_fetch_uint32 failed" I get every time I add a user.
maybe I should file a bug on bugzilla, should I?

I searched www.samba.org for pre-built packages, but there are not 
more recent packages than 3.0.26 for fedora 7... I guess they would 
not work on fedora 9, would them?

my boss will kill me... all was working with winXP, but I always 
tried to convince him that linux is better :°(

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