Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 105929
samba 3 shares : no browsing from win-box
Last modified: 2014-08-31 19:25:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: From windows box, you can "see" the fedora samba 3 server, but you can't access or browse shares even in security=share mode. See attachement of smb.conf, I used the same smb.conf as for samba v2 which worked with RH9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.edit workgroup and server string in smb.conf 2.edit security=share in smb.conf 3./etc/init.d/smb restart Actual Results: See the samba share in the network environment of the windoze box, but trying to use it (by simple clicking) yields. Message (translation from german, maybe bad): You cannot access to the computer. Probably you have no rights to use this network ressource. Expected Results: Browse the linux / samba box Additional info: Probably a configuration issue of the new samba v3. Some additional configuration of the default smb.conf should be done to give unexperienced users (like me ;-)) a simple startup. Configuration using redhat-config-samba doesn't work too, by the way. With RH 9, it went straightforward.
Created attachment 94823 [details] smb.conf My smb.conf
Does this still happen if you run "service iptables stop" as root and then try to browse the shares?
No, you're right: when I run /sbin/service iptables stop, I'm able to browse the defined share. I only cannot access to the share (same access restriction message), but that might be due to my configuration (I should create a smb-user to access the shrare). I will tell you tomorrow if I had success.
Ok, please remember to close this report then if it works out.
Comment from Rainer Hattenhauer: O.k. now everything works fine except the redhat-config-samba tool. It doesn't produce proper smb.conf files, perhaps a little more work on this field is needed. I've been edited the file by hand without using the redhat-config-samba tool, and had been able to work with a share even in security=user mode (smbpasswd needed). And you have to set up your firewall properly to get access to the samba share, workaround: /sbin/service iptables stop for testing purposes of samba. Thanks for help Rainer