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managed to setup SAMBA and enabled it on Fedora 10 Firewall, now i can view the XP machine and it's shares and even copy contents over - but i can't ...
  1. 03-01-2009 #1
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    how to view Fedora 10 share on XP Machine

    managed to setup SAMBA and enabled it on Fedora 10 Firewall, now i can view the XP machine and it's shares and even copy contents over - but i can't see my Fedora 10 PC from XP ??

    i can see the XP machine from Fedora 10 but cannot see the Fedora 10 machine from XP...

    what else to i need to enable so i can get access to the windows XP Printer? Which is already share-enabled?
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    Did you set up a shared folder on Linux? You can't just share the whole filesystem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeTbob View Post
    Did you set up a shared folder on Linux? You can't just share the whole filesystem.
    hehe... do i sound that stupid? i do know you can't just share the whole filesystem - but shouldn't i at least be able to see the Fedora 10 machine regardless if any shared contents or not? i mean i can see the Windows Machine from Fedora 10 even before i enable any shares on it... (i disabled the standard shared folders of Windows sometime ago so i re-enable them during this setup)

    i did install and run samba selecting folders to be shared... i think there's something on my firewall that i'm still missing...
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    No, I don't think you're dumb at all, you got Linux installed with Samba, that's not for dumb people. I was just thinking you might have forgot something simple, which I do all the time.
    I think someone once told me that Samba will work with SELinux and Firewall installed but you could always have a look just to check.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeTbob View Post
    No, I don't think you're dumb at all, you got Linux installed with Samba, that's not for dumb people. I was just thinking you might have forgot something simple, which I do all the time.
    I think someone once told me that Samba will work with SELinux and Firewall installed but you could always have a look just to check.
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    hehe now i feel dumb... what is selinux? first-time coming across the term...

    running
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     system-config-selinux
    brings an SELinux Admin Box.. what do i do now? i can see on Boolean there's alot of unticked samba allowing lines...
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    SELinux is a security tool,
    Security-Enhanced Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    which is complete overkill in my opinion, you can try enabling/disabling some options to see if you can get Samba to work, but do write down what you are changing so that you can change it back in case of trouble.
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    thanks MikeTbob... i'll have a go on this SELinux and see if it will resolve some of the problems
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