Browsing Windows Shares

[Paul Vandenberg]

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:08:28 -0500
> From: Sukwon Yi <jollaga at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Browsing Windows Shares
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> I found default firewall setting blocks certain traffic. Disabling
> firewall might be the first thing you should do.
>
> Another thing I should note is the workgroup setting. Open
> ~/.smb/smb.conf and type
>
> workgroup = <your workgroup name>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sukwon
>
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:25:52 -0000 (GMT), Paul Vandenberg
> <p.vandenberg at personainternet.com> wrote:
>> HI,
>>
>> I can't seem to see the Windows shares on my wife's computer. With
>> Fedora Core 1, I just typed smb:/// in the location field of
>> Nautilus
>> and they appeared. Now, I get nothing. I tried SuSE 9.1 and it
>> worked
>> no problem. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks....Paul
>>

Thanks for your help. None of the suggestions were effective. However,
I saw on FedoraForum.org, a suggestion to upgrade to Samba 3.0.5. The
packages are on www.samba.org. That did the trick. Apparently, there
are problems with Samba as shipped on FC2.

Paul