Samba with Windows XP client
Tim
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Tue Nov 3 05:20:29 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:01 -0500, Jud Craft wrote:
> I second this. I have -never- gotten Windows Network browsing to work
> reliably, under either the latest versions of Ubuntu or Fedora. And
> that's after browsing through numerous Samba packages and firewall
> settings posts for both distros (although at least Fedora has that
> handy Samba toggle in system-config-firewall).
Chances are that there are some SELinux booleans that you need to
change, as well. Which would be, for good security reasons, not allowed
by default; because that sort of slackness is why Windows is always full
of security flaws.
But it has to be said that Windows networking can be a nightmare in its
native environment. After fault finding other people's systems, I've
reached the conclusion that it's been badly designed, and never sensibly
fixed up.
> Heck, I can't even get Gnome's User File Sharing to work between
> Ubuntu and Fedora unless I completely deactivate the firewalls -- and
> Fedora doesn't come with the correct packages installed by default;
> you have to hunt down certain Apache and DAV packages yourself before
> you can activate the -built-in- file sharing!
Hmm, yeah, and it's not helped by a lack of documentation that explains
how it's supposed to work, so you can figure out how to make it work.
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