On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 19:19 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I think Samba's the culprit. Samba is set up in share mode on my mixed > Win7 and Linux network. Up to some recent period, Windows boxes could > see my Fedora shares and my Fedora box could get on the network and > see the Windows shares - typically I use Dolphin and select Network > \Samba Shares That brings up the "Workgroup" icon and clicking that > would show the computers on the network. > > > Now, I get a UN/PW authorization dialog as soon as I click on > "Workgroup", and nothing I enter works but just returns the dialog. I > don't remember when it was last working, but, it's been a while since > I tried to browse my Windows boxes. > > > I've checked the firewall settings to make sure they didn't get > changed and tried turning off Selinux enforcing; the machine is Fedora > 15 64-bit and is fully up to date. I tried installing Smb4k and when I > scan the network using its interface, it just returns a blank > screen... > > I've looked at the system and samba logs - the only interesting I see > there, in the Samba log, is messages like this: "Scheduled cleanup of > brl and lock database after unclean shutdownz" - this happenned > several times today it claims - then there follows a message saying it > is running the cleanup, and that's followed by strings of messages > like this "Could not find child 15456 -- ignoring"... I haven't hard > rebooted the machine or anything like that, so I'm not sure what > "unclean shutdown" is referring to... ---- I think 'share' mode was suitable in the early 2000's but not today. The concept was that you designated a user and that share would have the user's password as the password - to mimic filesharing as offered by Windows 95 & Windows 98. Thus you can't really pass a user to share mode, only a password. The user has to be configured in smb.conf and it is that users password that you must use to login to a samba sharing via share mode. The way to set up samba is 'security = user'. Then each user can login (or not login depending of course on configuration). I don't know that Windows 7 is capable of accessing 'share mode' but this page should prove useful in any event... http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
