F7 Warning on samba

[Carlos M. Gutierrez]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, antonio montagnani wrote:

> I had a PC that updated from FC6 to F7. On my network I used Samba to
> share some directories (it is a mixed network)
>
> This afternoon, after updating I have found that I couldn't share any
> directory.....and I could not understand why.
> I had a look at samba.conf file and I found that at the beginning of
> some lines a ; had been added, I guess from the GUI in System/Server
> Settings/Samba...is anybody else reporting same strangeness?? and in a
> fresh installation I can't find it (I mean the GUI)
> After removing ; everything worked

After upgrading to FC7, I had to do the following to get Samba running 
again:

1) Get nmbd running: (it is now a separate service)

service nmb start

2) restore the samba password file. For some reason, it got obliterated 
in the upgrade. Hopefully you took a backup before upgrading, 
otherwise:

smbpasswd -a user1
smbpasswd -a user2
...
smbpasswd -a userN


Specificly, #1 will solve the problem you are having. But then you may 
find that you still have to do #2.

Hope this is useful...

Carlos M. Gutierrez