Fedora 15 -- Samba configuration

[Michael Eager]

On 06/03/2011 01:56 PM, Gabriel VLASIU wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Michael Eager wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:49:22 -0700
>> From: Michael Eager<eager at eagercon.com>
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>> Subject: Fedora 15 -- Samba configuration
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>> I'm having trouble getting Samba to work on F15, x86_64, samba 3.5.8.
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>> I'm using the same smb.conf file which previously worked without
>> problem on Fedora 10.  I've trimmed it down to bare bones, with no luck.
>>   From a Windows XP machine, I get "<server>\<share>  is not accessible."
>> with no other information.
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>> I've also tried to access the share from the Linux server and I get
>> an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error.
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>> The user name is "eager" and I have run "smbpasswd -a eager" and
>> "smbpasswd -e eager".
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>> Any suggestions?  Here's the configuration info:
> setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=on

I turned off selinux and was able to connect, both from Linux and
Windows.  (I thought I had disabled it when I installed F15.)

I'll turn selinux back on and will give this a try.


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