On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 07:22 -0400, andy liebman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have sort of an odd problem that I'm hoping someone can shed a light on. > > > > I brought up a brand new Fedora Core 4 box using the default > > installation of Samba. The only change I made to smb.conf was to turn on > > encrypting passwords, and then did an smbpasswd -a for my user account > > and set a password. > > > > Using Windows XP, or OS X 10.3.9, I can connect to smb://server and be > > asked to authenticate, and then get a list of shares. > > > > With 10.4.6 (I tried several machines) when trying to connect to > > smb://server rather than giving me a list of shares or trying to get me > > to authenticate, the progress bar on the connect to server dialog > > "shimmers" basically forever. > > > > Using 10.4.6 I can connect to specific shares using smb://server/share > > without any problem. It only sits there when I do not specify a share. > > > > Using the same 10.4.6 machine, I can connect to a machine running > > Win2003 server just fine using smb://server. > > > > So basically this problem only exists when I use Tiger to connect to a > > Samba server. > > > > Has anyone heard about this? Any ideas? > > Fedora Core 4 comes with Samba 3.0.14 (or 14a) if I am not mistaken. > There was a change in that particular Samba version that created "show > stopper" issues connecting and authenticating from OS X Tiger versions. > The issues were resolved with Samba 3.0.20. I suggest that you upgrade > to Samba 3.0.22 or go backwards to 3.0.13 if you can find an rpm. > > Personally, I still find 3.0.13 to be the most stable and trouble-free > of all of the Samba versions I have used with OS X. ---- FWIW - Rex Dieter keeps a current compatible release of samba in kde-redhat repo which is available for Fedora and for RHEL. Thus if you add the kde-redhat repo to Fedora Core 4 and yum update, you will get the latest release.
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