Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-10-08 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Massimo Maiurana, il 27/08/2008 22:14, scrisse: one thing comes to my mind: could my problems be related to selinux? it was not. ok, this is just to let you know that my problems were indeed caused by a bug in that samba packages (3.2.0-2.17.fc9). I upgraded samba packages when version

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Massimo Maiurana, il 27/08/2008 22:07, scrisse: Can you ping the Fedora server by name from the Windows 98 computer? I don't remember if I tried it, I will when I'll be back in office. ehm, maybe it will not be necessary, because win98 is able to print using the printer instal

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 27/08/2008 22:26, scrisse: you are creating the samba user as root right? of course. -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragusa.linux.it http://massimo.solira.org GPG keyID #7044D601 Articolo 33 - [...]Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire scuole ed

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
/var/lib/samba, but when I create a user I get the same errors. one thing comes to my mind: could my problems be related to selinux? I disabled selinux putting it in permissive mode, do you think it could be of any help if I boot with selinux=0? -- Massimo Maiurana

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
roup, i.e. "GRECOELEVATORI". Can you ping the Fedora server by name from the Windows 98 computer? I don't remember if I tried it, I will when I'll be back in office. Hope this helps, thanks :) -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragusa.linux.it http://massimo.s

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
the latter was my home pc configuration, was not meant to be discussed, I introduced it just as an example of definitely working configuration. -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragusa.linux.it http://massimo.solira.org GPG keyID #7044D601 Articolo 33 - [...]Enti e privat

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
ould share files for backup purposes well, and that the win98 host could print to the samsung printer attached to the fedora box, but this is already working (is the only working thing in this samba installation). -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragusa.linux.it http://massimo.

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
he supplied password. <\from "man smb.conf"> so I thought that if I would set security=share, and set "guest only=yes" in the share, I could have connect to that share from everywhere and as everyone... unfortunately it isn't so on fedora, while it is so on my home

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
ilt packages, but there are not more recent packages than 3.0.26 for fedora 7... I guess they would not work on fedora 9, would them? my boss will kill me... all was working with winXP, but I always tried to convince him that linux is better :°( -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragus

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Massimo Maiurana, il 26/08/2008 19:20, scrisse: I even tried with secutity share, and this way I'm able to access the share, but only with barbara's password. even more odd: today I can't access the share neither with security=share and supplying the passw

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-26 Thread Massimo Maiurana
s \\BARBARA\Ufficio. unable to find share name". odd, given that I access to it locally with "smbclient //BARBARA/Ufficio". I can't even see win98's share from fedora, nor I can mount it with "mount -t cifs //greco/Ufficio2 /mnt/win98"; it says "mount error

Re: samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-25 Thread Massimo Maiurana
I changed the order editing symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc*, but I guess this could be overriden in the future by un upgrade. what is the correct way to change that order (I'm not so familiar with sysV init because I've always used slackware)? thanks again. -- Massimo Maiurana

samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

2008-08-24 Thread Massimo Maiurana
ng /var/lib/samba. thanks in advance, and sorry for my english. -- Massimo Maiurana massimoragusa.linux.it http://massimo.solira.org GPG keyID #7044D601 Articolo 33 - [...]Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire scuole ed istituti di educazione, senza oneri per lo Stato.[.