I'm relatively new to liunx and I have recently installed Fedora 9 to act as a media server. I thought everything was going well until I tried to connect to my Samba share but could not. Here is what I know:-

This is my smb.conf
#======================= Global Settings==================
[global]
netbios name = FEDORA
workgroup = WORKGROUP
log level = 2
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
security = share

#============================ Share Definitions =============
[public]
path = /public
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no
comment = Public


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When I run 'smbclient -L locahost' from Fedora I get this


Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
public Disk Public
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 3.2.11-0.28.fc9)
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.11-0.28.fc9]

Server Comment
--------- -------
FEDORA Samba 3.2.11-0.28.fc9
OWNER-PC

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
WORKGROUP OWNER-PC

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When I run this 'net view <ip address>' from XPLaptop I get

Shared resources at 192.168.0.5

Samba 3.2.11-0.28.fc9

Share name Type Used as Comment

------------------------------------
public Disk Public
The command completed successfully.


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smb and nmb services are running and I have the correct ports open

137, 138 udp
139, 445 tcp


When I try to map a drive I get System error has occured, almost like it's a firewall problem but I think I don't have to setup anything specific on my router because it's all on the LAN


When I run this command 'net view 192.168.0.5' from Laptop

Shared resources at 192.168.0.5

Samba 3.2.11-0.28.fc9

Share name Type Used as Comment

------------------------------------
public Disk Public
The command completed successfully.

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/public path has permissions 777



Both Laptops have workgroup = WORKGROUP

Not sure what the netbios is but I believe this can be anything I want?

So as far as I can tell, the laptop can see the Samba Share, Fedora can see it's own Samba share but nothing (both laptops XP and Vista or the Media Player) can connect to the /public folder

I don't login to either Laptop with a user account, so I believe I do not have to create a user.

Can Anyone HELP!