Good morning, Fedora 14, Samba 3.5
Testing from a MS Vista laptop, network connectivity is good (essentially a crossover cable between the laptop and the Linux box), firewall rules are fully permissive, smbd and nmbd daemons are running OK. Watching the log files, I can see that a conversation is taking place. In particular, my 'home' directory gets connected - but I can't access it from the laptop. That is, the log file reports the connection being established and the mapped network drive shows up in Windows Explorer - but clicking on it (in Windows Explorer) produces "Location is not available" and "Access is denied" errors. To add to my confusion, the directory (on the Linux box) appears in the "Browse" window when I step through the "Map network drive" windows. When I do all of that and select "Diagnose" from the seemingly inevitable error window, I'm told that Windows verifies that the host (the Linux server) can be reached but that the desired folder can't be found. Which makes precious little sense, as it contradicts the very visible presence of the folder in the preceding list. Another variant is to attempt to map another "service", one that is duly described in the smb.conf file - for those, I get "canonicalize_connect_path failed for service ..." Permissions are set OK, and SELINUX contexts are appropriate (and SELINUX isn't throwing up any errors that I can see). The program 'testparm' doesn't find any problems. I have explicitly set 'valid users' and added 'guest ok = yes'; users have been added with 'smbpasswd -a <user>'. Nada. Working through the troubleshooting fault tree (http://samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch12.html) I get all the way to 'smbclient -L localhost -U%' OK. From the laptop, the various 'nbtstat' queries return what I expect them to. Suggestions? I can send the configuration file if requested. Thank you. -- Mike Schuh, Seattle USA
