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 Bill Crawford
Try -t smb rather than smbfs (like -t ext3 not -t ext3fs). On 27/08/2008, Massimo Maiurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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:

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

2008-08-27 Thread Bill Crawford
On 27/08/2008, Bill Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try -t smb rather than smbfs (like -t ext3 not -t ext3fs). Apologies for the top post ... google mail now likes to do that for some reason (doesn't appear that way in the window I'm typing, so only realised too late). -- fedora-list mailing

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 19:20 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: Craig White, il 25/08/2008 16:44, scrisse: also, shouldn't the domain field reflect the workgroup name, i.e. GRECOELEVATORI? and if so, how can I edit it? yes, the 'workgroup' name in smb.conf should be the DOMAIN for all

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:38 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: 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

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
I don't think so...perhaps you know something I don't know but have you actually ever tried doing that or are you just winging a guess? Craig On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 17:53 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: Try -t smb rather than smbfs (like -t ext3 not -t ext3fs). On 27/08/2008, Massimo Maiurana

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Bill Crawford, il 27/08/2008 18:53, scrisse: Try -t smb rather than smbfs (like -t ext3 not -t ext3fs). I could try it when I'll be back, but I doubt it would work. the driver name is smbfs, and the driver name for ext3 is indeed ext3... even man mount refers to it as smbfs. I just did a

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 27/08/2008 19:05, scrisse: I even tried with secutity share, and this way I'm able to access the share, but only with barbara's password. if I try to access without a password it says server not using user level security and no password supplied. [...] It would be easier if

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 27/08/2008 19:16, scrisse: I don't believe so...smbfs was a kernel module that has been removed and I don't know if the module source even exists in the current kernels as it has been unmaintained for a long time. fs/smbfs is still in the current kernel tree, and the latest

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 27/08/2008 19:49, scrisse: fwiw...I set up my home Fedora 9 with tdbsam passdb (I normally use ldap) on Fedora 9 to test your issues and I'm not having user issues or any error adding users... :( there have to be a difference between your system and mine, but what? #

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

2008-08-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Massimo Maiurana wrote: I did it, but nothing had changed. however maybe domain and workgroup are not the same thing, because also on my home pc (which runs a samba server) domain is set to the name of the host. That might be a bad idea – I think Windows likes different names for different

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:52 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: Craig White, il 27/08/2008 19:49, scrisse: fwiw...I set up my home Fedora 9 with tdbsam passdb (I normally use ldap) on Fedora 9 to test your issues and I'm not having user issues or any error adding users... :( there have to

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
James Wilkinson, il 27/08/2008 21:16, scrisse: Try having one domain name (on Samba) = workgroup name (on Windows) across all your computers, but different names for each computer. how can I set the domain name? I did set the workgroup name in smb.conf to GRECOELEVATORI, in /etc/hosts there

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

2008-08-27 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 27/08/2008 21:47, scrisse: you might try... stopping smb/nmb service removing (or just moving) /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb and /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb and restarting smb/nmb, recreating the user barbara and see what happens I tried wiping all tdb files under

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 22:07 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: James Wilkinson, il 27/08/2008 21:16, scrisse: Try having one domain name (on Samba) = workgroup name (on Windows) across all your computers, but different names for each computer. how can I set the domain name? I did set the

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

2008-08-27 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 22:14 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: Craig White, il 27/08/2008 21:47, scrisse: you might try... stopping smb/nmb service removing (or just moving) /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb and /var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb and restarting smb/nmb, recreating the

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 massimoatragusa.linux.it http://massimo.solira.org GPG keyID #7044D601 Articolo 33 - [...]Enti e privati hanno il diritto di istituire scuole

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 installed on the

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

2008-08-26 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Craig White, il 25/08/2008 16:44, scrisse: also, shouldn't the domain field reflect the workgroup name, i.e. GRECOELEVATORI? and if so, how can I edit it? yes, the 'workgroup' name in smb.conf should be the DOMAIN for all users so there's a problem there to be sure. At this point, I would

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

2008-08-24 Thread Massimo Maiurana
hi all, I've just joined this list :) I'm facing a problem with a brand new installation on fedora 9. I did a system update right after the installation, so the samba packages are of the latest available version (3.2.0-17.fc9). at the first run, all the tree of tdb files were created under

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

2008-08-24 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 09:31 +0200, Massimo Maiurana wrote: hi all, I've just joined this list :) I'm facing a problem with a brand new installation on fedora 9. I did a system update right after the installation, so the samba packages are of the latest available version (3.2.0-17.fc9). at