Samba Nightmare!!

[avrohomg]

Hello,

I am having a real nightmare setting up a Samba share between Fedora 8 and Windows XP. The setup seemed straight forward, but it's just not working. I enabled Samba in my firewall, made sure nmb is running, but whenever I try to map a Windows drive to the share, or even open it in Windows Explorer, I get the following error in /var/log/messages:

Nov 25 19:37:37 localhost smbd[20825]: [2007/11/25 19:37:37, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(327)
Nov 25 19:37:37 localhost smbd[20825]: Denied connection from (192.168.2.204)
Nov 25 19:37:37 localhost smbd[20826]: [2007/11/25 19:37:37, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(327)
Nov 25 19:37:37 localhost smbd[20826]: Denied connection from (192.168.2.204)

Below is an excerpt from smb.conf


#======================= Global Settings =====================================

[global]

# ----------------------- Netwrok Related Options -------------------------
#
# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: MIDEARTH
#
# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
#
# netbios name can be used to specify a server name not tied to the hostname
#
# Interfaces lets you configure Samba to use multiple interfaces
# If you have multiple network interfaces then you can list the ones
# you want to listen on (never omit localhost)
#
# Hosts Allow/Hosts Deny lets you restrict who can connect, and you can
# specifiy it as a per share option as well
#
workgroup = simiplex
server string = Samba Server %v

; netbios name = avrohom-prod3

interfaces = lo eth0 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 192.168.2.0/24
hosts allow = 127. 192.168.12. 192.168.13. 192.168.2

# --------------------------- Logging Options -----------------------------
#
# Log File let you specify where to put logs and how to split them up.
#
# Max Log Size let you specify the max size log files should reach

# logs split per machine
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
# max 50KB per log file, then rotate
max log size = 50

# ----------------------- Standalone Server Options ------------------------
#
# Scurity can be set to user, share(deprecated) or server(deprecated)
#
# Backend to store user information in. New installations should
# use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards
# compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration.

security = user
passdb backend = tdbsam




# --------------------------- Filesystem Options -
; map archive = no
; map hidden = no
; map read only = no
; map system = no
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
; guest ok = no
; guest account = nobody
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
; store dos attributes = yes



#============================ Share Definitions ==============================

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
; valid users = %S
; valid users = MYDOMAIN\%S

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
; guest ok = no
; writable = No
printable = yes


[SimiPlexC]
comment = SimiPlexShare
path = /media/SimiPlex/root/C
writeable = yes
; browseable = yes
guest ok = yes




Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Avrohom

[exutable]

Funny enough I just did this EXACT thing. I shared a folder between Samba on Fedora 8 and Windows XP Pro.

The loop holes I had to jump through:

1. Turn off ALL security, which means your firewall, and ESPECIALLY SELinux(this is what my problem was)
2. Create a user on the linux box which is the same as the one on the XP box
3. I set security = share

This is how I got mine to work.

My theory is:
Set everything up without security to make sure it works, then start adding security features.

[avrohomg]

Hi. Thanks for your prompt reply. I had SELinux off. The firewall didn't make a difference either. However, what finally got it working was adding my subnet in the hosts allow:

hosts allow = 127. 192.168.12. 192.168.13. 192.168.2 192.168.2.0/24

The piece that got it working was 192.168.2.0/24, since my network is 192.168.2.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0.

I hope this post will help the next person who is struggling

Regards,

Avrohom