Basic Samba not playing nice...

[Sean-NN]

Hi,

I have a very basic Samba requirement for my FC10 box which a cannot get working.

I have a folder /data which I would like published as a public share with no security requirement on my home network. When I browse from my Vista workstation to \\192.168.0.200 I see the share called "data" but I cannot open it. I receive a message saying "The network location cannot be opened".

Strangely, if I move the share config to / I get a folder listing in read only mode but still can't see the data folder there, but it certainly exists as a ls reveals:

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K 2009-05-06 18:48 data


My smb.conf file contents are pasted below, any assistance will be much appreciated.

[global]
workgroup = workgroup
server string = NAS01
local master = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
#password server = None
guest ok = yes
guest account = root
security = SHARE
dns proxy = no

[data]
path = /data
read only = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
guest ok = yes
public = yes
printable = no
share modes = no
locking = no

#create mask = 0775

[kromberg]

I had the same problem, selinux was 'helping' me out. I disabled selinux and bingo things worked fine. Just too lazy to enable selinux and generated a rule to allow smd to work.

[stefan1975]

besides modding the SElinux config, samba also has to be allowed to pass through the firewall (system-config-firewall) and it might be neccesary in order to access the share without credentials to change the global setting of security from "user" to de deprecated "share" in the smb.conf.

[Sean-NN]

kromberg: I owe you a case of beers mate. I've been struggling with this for over a week. A few other things including VNC server and Squeeze Center all work all of a sudden.

Cheers,
S

PS I'll cred you on http://www.linuxforums.org/ where I had a similar post too.