It seems that there were two problems. Samba Server Settings/Authentication Mode was set to User and should have been Share. The second problem was selinux was denying access on my shares and selinux's suggested fix didn't work because the shares were on an ntsf volume. I disabled selinux and now everything works, include pinging. I have since found a way to enable selinux to work with ntfs volumnes - buts thats for another day. Thanks to all who replied. Mike On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 12:20 -0600, Mike Adolf wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just installed fedora 11 but have been a linux users for several > years (Ubuntu). I was able to get everything I needed running with out > any problems until I got to sharing Disks/Folders with Windows. I have > my Linux box, 2 Windows machines, and a printer on a LAN configured with > a single router. The network settings on the PCs have not been change in > a long while and everything use to work. > > I configured Samba to share a backup disk to everyone using the Samba > Server Configuration tool GUI. nmb and smb are both running. > > When I go to "Places-> Network" I see the Windows Network icon. When > activating it I get "Failed to retrieve share list from server". I can > not ping any other machine. No PC can see the Linux machine but PCs can > see each other. I did get the printer to work after a driver install and > mail and internet are fine. My linux machine is a wired connection to > the router, device eth0. The PCs are wireless. Network Configuration > tool also shows a ethernet hardware device pan0 that I know nothing > about. > > My router is set up to use dynamic addressing so I did not add any > host/ip pairs to the hosts file. Being only a linux user and not an > expert, I don't know what is wrong and nor what to do next. > > Mike > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
