[Tfug] Samba Setup Question

[Joshua Bernstein]

Hey Earl,

    Quick thought. Maybe your Firewall is on on your second machine? 
That usually bites me. You can run iptables -L to see if you have any 
rules defined and if so run iptables -F to flush the rule set and try 
Samba again.

-Josh

Earl wrote:
> I have Samba set up on 2 computers. One works, one doesn't.
>
> The first computer is running Debian 3.1 (stable). When I installed, I
> did the default and put everything under root. I have a directory named
> /samba. I set the partition to rwxrwxrwx and it it works fine. I can
> see it from Windows or Linux. Moving files to or from this computer is
> no problem from any computer on my network.
>
> Here is my smb.conf file:
>
> [global]
>      workgroup = myworkgroup
>      security = share
>      server string = Samba Server
>
> [samba share]
>      path = /samba
>      writable = yes
>      guest ok = yes
>
> My second computer is running Debian 4.0 (testing). This time I
> installed using a different partitions for each file system. I used the
> same smb.conf file and set the permissions to rwxrwxrwx. I can see the
> samba share but can't access it (even from the computer it is on).
>
> here is the line from my fstab file:
>
> /dev/sdb2     /samba     ext3     defaults     0    2
>
> is this my problem? Should defaults be changed to make /samba full
> readable and writable in fstab?
>
> Earl
>
>
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