Rob,
That rocks!. Your suggestions fixed everything.
To reiterate for others.
1. fix printer problem not printing from XP machine make sure the
printer path is
path = /var/spool/samba
not /usr/spool on FC6 /usr/spool/samba does not exist
2. Fix the the sharing across network, make sure the selinux is enabled
to see the home directories execute
setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1
Thank you very much for the help Rob.
Joe
Robert Locke wrote:
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
