Problems setting up (fresh) Samba 4 installation

Rowland Penny repenny at f2s.com
Fri Jan 4 15:24:19 MST 2013


On 04/01/13 21:53, Mark Pilant wrote:
> After flushing the RHEL system and building another, I have finally gotten
> a fair measure of success.  By this, I mean I was able to create a share
> and manipulate a file in the share.  However, I did have to make some SWAGs
> about information not in the HOWTO.
>
> First thing I found with the HOWTO, was section 11 concerning setting the
> permissions.  The part regarding Bind failed because of missing files, but
> I expect this is because I have Samba configured for the internal DNS.  If
> not, then there are probably other things waiting to fail which I have not
> found.

Perhaps it may be better to move all references to bind from the Samba 
AD DC HOWTO page to its own separate page. It would probably stop a lot 
of the problems where people still seem to think they need the bind files.

Rowland

> The second thing was having to open the firewall to allow the SMB traffic.
> This resolved the problem where I could "see" the Samba system from a
> Windows 7 system but could not mount the share.  After opening the
> firewall, all was good.
>
> I hope my troubles have added to (future) improvements of the HOWTO.
>
> Thank you all for your help sorting this all out.
>
> - Mark
>


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