On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:10 +0100, Bob Latham wrote: > In article <200804291247.10870.cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, > Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday April 29 2008 10:07:36 am Bob Latham wrote: > > > and offer you whatever desktops you've got installed as selections to > > boot into - if you don't know what you've got, it's probably Gnome > > Well Gnome is the only option other than default system session. > > > > > snip............ > > > > > > > gets you into the redhat firewall configuration utility if > > > > you're not using any others such as Shorewall or Firestarter > > > > Test each machine you want to participate in your network to > > > > see if you can ping it from the others, and whether it can > > > > ping the others... > > > do you know how to ping? > > Yes. Well on everything except Linux it seems as when I just tried it I > found it worked fine but I could not find a way to stop it pinging. Not > even the escape key did anything. That just seem like being different for > the sake of it even if it means being really awkward. In the end I quit > the terminal and restarted it. I think that's stopped it but I'm not sure. ctrl-c will stop ping. > > > > I have now moved on a little but am now getting an error.... > > > > > > SELinux AVC Denial - flashing banner I can't stop!!!!! > > I've got rid of the flashing banner but not the problem. > > > > SELinux is preventing the Samba daemon from reading user's > > > home directories. > > Any suggestions how to work out what I need to kill in SELinux to let me > share a folder? > > > What version of Fedora are you running? Bets are off > > if it's F9... > > Looking at the iso file I downloaded as I cannot find any way to look this > up inside the desktop, the file says "fedora-8-live-i686.iso". I expect > that means Fedora 8. > > > On the Selinux warnings, just click on the little star icon that > > should be appearing near your flashing error message - it should > > open up a window with some informative messages about the > > problem > > Yes, I've stopped the banner now and as I wrote earlier it says "SELinux > is preventing the Samba daemon from reading user's home directories." > > > and suggestions on commands to run to fix them > > It seems to offer no suggestions about how to get around that. > > > even Windows is complicated the first time you ever try to use > > it - Linux is takes a bit more tweaking but you should be able > > to get it - > > Thanks again. > > > Bob. > > -- ======================================================================= Regression analysis: Mathematical techniques for trying to understand why things are getting worse. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
