On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 00:42 -0600, Joe W. Byers wrote: > I installed Fedora 6 on an old HP computer that I have replacing an even > older HP that had Fedora 5 installed (AMD366). I had samba running on > the Fedora 5 computer where I could print to a connected HPlaserjet1100 > printer from my Redhat EL4 server and windows XP computers. I used this > computer for a printing and web surfing mainly. I could also access the > shared directories from both my other machines. > > After installing Fedora 6 on the newer computer and setting up Samba I > ran into several problems. I set up Samba to as security = share just > like on my REL4 machine > > 1. I could not get to any of the shared directories on the Fedora 6 > computer. I can see them in a KDE smb browser, but can not mount them > or access them. Access denied or smb://byers2/homeshare does not exits > errors. If SELinux is enabled, home directories are blocked by default. Try running, "setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1" (without the quotes). > > 2. The Redhat EL4 automatically recognized the HPLaserjet printer on > the Fedora Box, and I can print from the REL4 server but not the windows > XP computer. Funny thing is that if I connect the REL4 recognized > HPlaserjet printer, I can print to the laserjet on the fedora 6 machine > through this server. I would like to print directly from the windows xp > box. > I still haven't figured the reason this change occurred but you need to adjust the line over to (note the change of /usr over to /var): path = /var/spool/samba > 3. I can see the shared directories on the fedora 6 computer from the > windows computer in my workgroup computers, and open the samba fedora > computer, but not open a share. AGain, permisson denied. > > Everything is set to the minimal for the shares on the Fedora 6 and the > RHEL 4 computers > ie > [homeshare] > path=/home/homeshare > writeable = yes > guest ok = yes > browseable = yes > > workgroup = home > > [printers] > comment = All Printers > path = /usr/spool/samba > printable = yes > printer name = HPLaserjet1100 > ;use client driver = yes > browseable = no > ;printer admin = root > writeable = no > > > I have tried all kinds of configurations and get access denied messages > in my logs. I appreciate any help. > > thank you > Joe > HTH, --Rob
