FC4 Samba config...

[Markus Huber]

Joe wrote:
> I have tried and tried and tried to get Samba to work to no avail.  I
> have followed tutorial after tutorial and none seem to work for me. 
> Here's the problem.  I set up a samba share with pretty much the
> default settings, but I change the auth to share.  I have a laptop
> with XP on it and my desktop is a conglomeration of XP, Gentoo, and
> FC4.  I can provide my smb.conf file if that is needed.  The problem I
> have doesnt seem to be with the Samba but with the XP computer.  I
> click on the Computer in Network neighborhood to access the shared
> files, but a dialog box pops up saying that my linux computer is
> either not available or I do not have sufficeint auth to access it. 
> Anybody have some answers.  If I need to supply some more information
> I can...
> 

You might have to set firewall rules. Have you tried to access your 
samba share having the firewall on FC4 switched off? This would test if 
you need to set it.

Just a thought.

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Regards
Markus Huber