Hi<BR><BR>What does testparm give you?<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Per<BR>At Tuesday, 01-12-2009 on 10:05 "James Bensley" <jwbensley@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #22437f 2px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">So I went to System > Administration > Server Settings > Samba and<BR>added a folder to share and initially set it to guest access to get<BR>things going.<BR><BR>I couldn't access this one and only share on this server with guest<BR>access from either my Windows laptop (XP Pro SP3) or a Leopard server<BR>(10.5.8) so I changed the settings to use user authentication and<BR>added my local user details (this is a stand alone file server with<BR>one user and the root user running CentOS 5.4).<BR><BR>I made sure I hadn't put the entries in iptables incorrect by stopping<BR>iptables (sudo /etc/init.d/iptables stop, which executed just fine).<BR>SELinux kept popping up so I disabled that and restarted the server<BR>also. So now with no iptables nor SELinux enabled flicking between<BR>guest and user access I still can't access the share (I have also<BR>tried authenticating as root to no avail), my Windows and Mac test<BR>machines are erroring out saying they don't have permissions to access<BR>the share (I am an administrator on both machines so its not a local<BR>permissions issue).<BR><BR>There are no firewall restrictions between my test machines and the<BR>CentOS server as I would even get prompted for authentication so<BR>that's not a problem and my test machines work fine because I can<BR>mount smb shares on other files servers in the same subnet as the<BR>CentOS server, what's going on?<BR><BR>Ideas are welcome! Thanks for reading...<BR>-- <BR>Regards,<BR>James ;)<BR><BR>Pablo Picasso - "Computers are useless. They can only give you<BR>answers." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/pablo_picasso.html<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CentOS mailing list<BR>CentOS@centos.org<BR>http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</BLOCKQUOTE>