On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 23:22 -0800, Michael Eager wrote: > I'm having problems getting Samba to work on Fedora 8. > Perhaps someone has an idea. > > Here's the simple smb.conf I'm using: > > [global] > workgroup = WORKGROUP > security = users > wins support = yes > > [work] > comment = Work Area > path = /export/work > public = yes > guest ok = yes > writable = yes > readonly = no > printable = no > browseable = yes > > SELinux is disabled, no firewall. > > When I run "smbclient -L localhost -U%" I get the following: > > Sharename Type Comment > --------- ---- ------- > work Disk Work Area > IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.0.27a-0.fc8) > > Server Comment > --------- ------- > > Workgroup Master > --------- ------- > > I would expect the workgroup name and server name to be listed. > > findsmb reports Samba servers on other systems, but not localhost. > > I've tried with "security = share" and without the "wins" line. > I've also tried a working smb.conf from a FC 5 system. > I created a user with smbpasswd. None of this makes any difference. > > I noticed that nmbd is started by /etc/init.d/smb on the FC 5 > system, but that F8 doesn't. Not sure what that means. > > Any suggestions? ---- shouldn't that be security = user ? smbclient -L $HOSTNAME where $HOSTNAME is the name of your computer though localhost or ip should work. You don't need to authenticate (a user) what errors do you get when you do... testparm -s Craig
