Quoting James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com>: > So I went to System > Administration > Server Settings > Samba and > added a folder to share and initially set it to guest access to get > things going. > > I couldn't access this one and only share on this server with guest > access from either my Windows laptop (XP Pro SP3) or a Leopard server > (10.5.8) so I changed the settings to use user authentication and > added my local user details (this is a stand alone file server with > one user and the root user running CentOS 5.4). > > I made sure I hadn't put the entries in iptables incorrect by stopping > iptables (sudo /etc/init.d/iptables stop, which executed just fine). > SELinux kept popping up so I disabled that and restarted the server > also. So now with no iptables nor SELinux enabled flicking between > guest and user access I still can't access the share (I have also > tried authenticating as root to no avail), my Windows and Mac test > machines are erroring out saying they don't have permissions to access > the share (I am an administrator on both machines so its not a local > permissions issue). > > There are no firewall restrictions between my test machines and the > CentOS server as I would even get prompted for authentication so > that's not a problem and my test machines work fine because I can > mount smb shares on other files servers in the same subnet as the > CentOS server, what's going on? > > Ideas are welcome! Thanks for reading... Get output from testparm and attach it (on text format) to this message. -- Eero