Samba Access from WinXP

[Guido Leisker]

> 
> On 20/03/06, *Guido Leisker* <lists.gl at guido-leisker.de 
> <mailto:lists.gl at guido-leisker.de>> wrote:
> 
>      > Hey mates,
>      >
>      > I set-up a smaba server on my laptop with a shared folder, and
>     correct
>      > work-group access, so that I can see it from my WinXP program on the
>      > network... Now, I also managed the correct user access for the
>     server,
>      > with username = my username (ahelmy) and password...
>      >
>      > However, I cannot access the server (or the shared folder, that
>     is) from
>      > my WinXP pc, so... what else should I do? When I try and access it, I
>      > get the permission denied error mesage
>      >
>      > Thank you
>      >
>      > --
>      > A. Helmy
>      >
>     Do you try to share home dirs?
>     Then you have a problem with se linux
>     Have a look at
>     $ man samba_selinux
> 
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 > huh? I didn't really understand that Guido :)

If you try to share direcotories which are home-direcotries of users. Or 
chield-dirs. Then that is not allowed by fedora by default.
You have to tell se-linux that you want to do that.
That is not a samba-part.

type man samba_selinux

(Is my english realy so bad ;) )