On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 14:50 -0400, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Subject: Re: [FC4]Samba doesn't accessible to Windows > To: korgull@xxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core releases > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <42BEE452.5060000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Marcel Janssen wrote: > > >On Sunday 26 June 2005 12:50, Leon Pu wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>my samba share cannot be accessed by Windows computers in my > network. > >>It always return "N-3 is not accessible. The network name cannot be > >>found." > >> > >>But I can access these Windows shares in Konqueror by > smb://IP_ADDRESS. > >> > >>At the end of the mail is my smb.conf, please have a look. > >> > >> > > > >Actually I have a simlar problem. When I start samba at boot, it will > not > >work. > >When I start samba (sometimes needed multiple time before it really > starts) > >using swat it works. > >Beats the hell out of me why it behaves like this but it is > repeatable. > > > >Regards, > >Marcel > > > > > > > Hello All, > > I had the same samba problem with FC4, along with a problem getting > active my ppp0 internet DSL interface at boot, this two services was > refusing to start at boot. This two services was working OK before my > update from FC3 > > I think that it was having something to do with SE, because to > solution > this I had to turn off SE, reboot, then turn on SE & reboot again, > this > (I think) relabeled the entire file system & after this; no more > problems with the smb & ppp0 services getting working ok. > > > best regards > > Teo Fonrouge > > > Can you give complete details with this solution? I haven't tried this but it seems logical. I've been racking my head with this same problem, But I'm still in FC3. I can smb over into Windows all day, but have no authority to smb from windows to Linux. How did do you turn-on, turn-off SE-Linux? Have you submitted this work around to anyone? Jay Scherrer