[Samba] Fedora 18/ Windows 7 setup issues

[Dale Schroeder]

Dave,

Perhaps provide the [global] section and posix permissions of "/share".  
I don't see any clues here.

Dale


On 04/26/2013 8:23 AM, Dave Pawson wrote:
> I'm having fun getting this pair to talk sweetly together.
> So many setup pages around, I'm quite confused.
> A new install of samba, clean, just added
> a [shares] section
> 	path = /share
> 	read only = no
> 	browseable = yes
> 	valid users = @users	
> 	create mask = 0660
>    	directory mask = 0771
>
> Not even sure which site I followed for the win7 (64 bit) setup.
>
> I've had it working ... booted and now it fails to connect,
> pc client to server (linux).
>
> Currently working my way through
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html
>    So far so good.
>
> I note the samba.org docs are 3.0 focused, I'm using the most recent,
> not sure if there are any changes which might impact the setup.
>
> All I want is a simple (easy) transfer of files from the win box to
> the linux box
> (either way would suffice).
>
> Which is the easiest windows 64 setup page please?
> Or how to test?
>
> Log isn't currently  telling me much.
>
> # tail -F /var/log/samba/log.smbd
> [2013/04/26 11:40:32,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1200(main)
>    smbd version 4.0.5 started.
>    Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2012
> [2013/04/26 11:40:32.035048,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1280(main)
>    standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
> [2013/04/26 12:09:26,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1200(main)
>    smbd version 4.0.5 started.
>    Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2012
> [2013/04/26 12:09:26.697060,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1280(main)
>    standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
> [2013/04/26 13:43:27.053862,  0] ../lib/util/pidfile.c:153(pidfile_unlink)
>    Failed to delete pidfile /run/smbd.pid. Error was No such file or directory
> [2013/04/26 13:43:27,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1200(main)
>    smbd version 4.0.5 started.
>    Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2012
> [2013/04/26 13:43:27.084381,  0] ../source3/smbd/server.c:1280(main)
>    standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
>
>
> Any suggestions please?
> remove / re-install samba and start again?
>
> TiA
>