Samba problem Fedora 6

Joe W. Byers ecjbosu at aol.com
Thu Mar 8 06:42:20 UTC 2007


I installed Fedora 6 on an old HP computer that I have replacing an even 
older HP that had Fedora 5 installed (AMD366).  I had samba running on 
the Fedora 5 computer where I could print to a connected HPlaserjet1100 
printer from my Redhat EL4 server and windows XP computers.  I used this 
computer for a printing and web surfing mainly.  I could also access the 
shared directories from both my other machines.

After installing Fedora 6 on the newer computer and setting up Samba I 
ran into several problems.  I set up Samba to as security = share just 
like on my REL4 machine

1.  I could not get to any of the shared directories on the Fedora 6 
computer.  I can see them in a KDE smb browser, but can not mount them 
or access them.  Access denied or smb://byers2/homeshare does not exits 
errors.

2.  The Redhat EL4 automatically recognized the HPLaserjet printer on 
the Fedora Box, and I can print from the REL4 server but not the windows 
XP computer.  Funny thing is that if I connect the REL4 recognized 
HPlaserjet printer, I can print to the laserjet on the fedora 6 machine 
through this server.  I would like to print directly from the windows xp 
box.

3.  I can see the shared directories on the fedora 6 computer from the 
windows computer in my workgroup computers, and open the samba fedora 
computer, but not open a share.  AGain, permisson denied.

Everything is set to the minimal for the shares on the Fedora 6 and the 
RHEL 4 computers
ie
[homeshare]
path=/home/homeshare
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = yes

workgroup = home

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba
printable = yes
printer name = HPLaserjet1100
;use client driver = yes
browseable = no
;printer admin = root
writeable = no


I have tried all kinds of configurations and get access denied messages 
in my logs.  I appreciate any help.

thank you
Joe




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