[FC4]Samba doesn't accessible to Windows

[Teo Fonrouge]

Jay Scherrer wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 14:50 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
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>>Subject: Re: [FC4]Samba doesn't accessible to Windows
>>To: korgull at home.nl, For users of Fedora Core releases
>>        <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Message-ID: <42BEE452.5060000 at windtelsoft.com>
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>>Marcel Janssen wrote:
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>>>On Sunday 26 June 2005 12:50, Leon Pu wrote:
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>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>my samba share cannot be accessed by Windows computers in my
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>>network.
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>>>>It always return "N-3 is not accessible. The network name cannot be
>>>>found."
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>>>>But I can access these Windows shares in Konqueror by
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>>smb://IP_ADDRESS.
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>>>>At the end of the mail is my smb.conf, please have a look.
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>>>Actually I have a simlar problem. When I start samba at boot, it will
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>>>work.
>>>When I start samba (sometimes needed multiple time before it really
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>>starts) 
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>>>using swat it works.
>>>Beats the hell out of me why it behaves like this but it is
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>>repeatable.
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>>>Regards,
>>>Marcel
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>>Hello All,
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>>I had the same samba problem with FC4, along with a problem getting 
>>active my ppp0 internet DSL interface at boot, this two services was 
>>refusing to start at boot. This two services was working OK before my 
>>update from FC3
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>>I think that it was having something to do with SE, because to
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>>this I had to turn off SE, reboot, then turn on SE & reboot again,
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>>(I think) relabeled the entire file system & after this; no more 
>>problems with the smb & ppp0 services getting working ok.
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>>best regards
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>>Teo Fonrouge
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>Can you give complete details with this solution? I haven't tried this
>but it seems logical. I've been racking my head with this same problem,
>But I'm still in FC3. I can smb over into Windows all day, but have no
>authority to smb from windows to Linux. How did do you turn-on, turn-off
>SE-Linux? Have you submitted this work around to anyone?
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>Jay Scherrer
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Hello Jay,

You can find the 'Security Level' gui utility in the 'System 
Configuration' menu. Run it (you need to provide root password), select 
the SELinux tab and deselect the Enabled checkbox, reboot, and again, 
select the Enabled checkbox, reboot, this may take a while because the 
relabel process.

Regarding your issues with your smb network, it would be usefull if you 
provide us with a copy of your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to take a look 
into it.

Back in to FC3 I never had troubles with my smb network, this issue came 
with my new FC4 installation. So I think that your trouble may be more a 
smb configuration one.


best regards

Teo Fonrouge