[Wylug-help] Solved - Re: FC, Samba, and permissions problems

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks,

I finally resolved this. The problem wasn't Samba at all, but SELinux.

Once I sorted this everything worked fine.

Thanks

Gary
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:38:22 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I now have
>
> [reef]
> 	comment = Reef shared folder
> 	path = /user/remote/reef
> 	writeable = yes
>  	browseable = yes
>  	guest ok = yes
> 	guest only = yes
>
> However, I still cannot access the share and still get the same error
> message
>
> In the global section I have 'guest account = gary'
>
> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:27:52 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I tried dropping guest ok and guest only. It asked for a password then
> > failed exactly the same way.
> > Putting guest ok and guest only back and removing valid users and force
> > user still failed, but did not ask for a password
> >
> > 'gary' has been added using smbpasswd
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:12:07 John Leach wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:36 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > > I've just set up a new FC9 system with Samba and I'm having a problem
> > >
> > > Hi Gary,
> > >
> > > The samba config is unclear about the behaviour of "guest ok" with
> > > "valid users".  Try dropping the valid users line.
> > >
> > > John.
> > >
> > > > I've set security to share, and then set up the following share
> > > >
> > > > [reef]
> > > >         comment = Reef shared folder
> > > >         path = /user/remote/reef
> > > >         writeable = yes
> > > >         browseable = yes
> > > >         guest ok = yes
> > > >         guest only = yes
> > > >         valid users = gary
> > > >         force user = gary



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