Samba problem Fedora 6

[Joe W. Byers]

Rob,

That rocks!.  Your suggestions fixed everything.

To reiterate for others.
1.  fix printer problem not printing from XP machine make sure the 
printer path is
		 path = /var/spool/samba
not /usr/spool on FC6 /usr/spool/samba does not exist

2.  Fix the the sharing across network, make sure the selinux is enabled 
to see the home directories execute
	setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1

Thank you very much for the help Rob.

Joe

Robert Locke wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 00:42 -0600, Joe W. Byers wrote:
>> I installed Fedora 6 on an old HP computer that I have replacing an even 
>> older HP that had Fedora 5 installed (AMD366).  I had samba running on 
>> the Fedora 5 computer where I could print to a connected HPlaserjet1100 
>> printer from my Redhat EL4 server and windows XP computers.  I used this 
>> computer for a printing and web surfing mainly.  I could also access the 
>> shared directories from both my other machines.
>>
>> After installing Fedora 6 on the newer computer and setting up Samba I 
>> ran into several problems.  I set up Samba to as security = share just 
>> like on my REL4 machine
>>
>> 1.  I could not get to any of the shared directories on the Fedora 6 
>> computer.  I can see them in a KDE smb browser, but can not mount them 
>> or access them.  Access denied or smb://byers2/homeshare does not exits 
>> errors.
> 
> If SELinux is enabled, home directories are blocked by default.  Try
> running, "setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1" (without the quotes).
> 
>> 2.  The Redhat EL4 automatically recognized the HPLaserjet printer on 
>> the Fedora Box, and I can print from the REL4 server but not the windows 
>> XP computer.  Funny thing is that if I connect the REL4 recognized 
>> HPlaserjet printer, I can print to the laserjet on the fedora 6 machine 
>> through this server.  I would like to print directly from the windows xp 
>> box.
>>
> 
> I still haven't figured the reason this change occurred but you need to
> adjust the line over to (note the change of /usr over to /var):
> 
> path = /var/spool/samba
> 
> 
>> 3.  I can see the shared directories on the fedora 6 computer from the 
>> windows computer in my workgroup computers, and open the samba fedora 
>> computer, but not open a share.  AGain, permisson denied.
>>
>> Everything is set to the minimal for the shares on the Fedora 6 and the 
>> RHEL 4 computers
>> ie
>> [homeshare]
>> path=/home/homeshare
>> writeable = yes
>> guest ok = yes
>> browseable = yes
>>
>> workgroup = home
>>
>> [printers]
>> comment = All Printers
>> path = /usr/spool/samba
>> printable = yes
>> printer name = HPLaserjet1100
>> ;use client driver = yes
>> browseable = no
>> ;printer admin = root
>> writeable = no
>>
>>
>> I have tried all kinds of configurations and get access denied messages 
>> in my logs.  I appreciate any help.
>>
>> thank you
>> Joe
>>
> 
> HTH,
> 
> --Rob
>