[plug] SAMBA on Fedora Core 4

[Daniel J. Axtens]

> Well this is my first post to the PLUG forums so please excuse me as I only
> know the one person who invited me to the August seminar in Technology Park.
Welcome!

> I am running Fedora Core 4
Hehehe... just installed that myself, after being with FC3 for ~8 months.

> This sounds like a file pemissions problem..... so I set all read/write
> permissions on the extra drives to allow "nobody". (basically no secuiry at
> all), yet Windows still cannot access the shares. 

>  I don't think SAMBA is the problem.......
Well, check your /etc/fstab. You may need to set the uid of the file
system to nobody. Alternately, you may need to set the umask to
something like 0000. (This corresponds to the permissions rwxrwxrwx or
777 if you prefer the numeric system) It's hugely insecure, but it
might just work - IIRC these values tend to override the permissions
set the normal way. (these values will replace the value "defaults" in
the line for the drive)

On the off chance that it is samba though...
Assuming you are using the utilty system-config-samba, what is the
authentication mode of the samba server? (Under
menu->Preferences->Server Settings...)  If it is "User", do you have a
user account created under menu->Preferences->Samba Users...? Or, do
you have the guest account enabled?

Does the share have the write permissions? (Under the basic tab of the
properties of the share)? Are the correct users/everyone allowed to
access the share (under the access tab)?

I hope that helps; feel free to reply whether it works or not!
Daniel Axtens
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