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Fedora 17 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 17 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

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By: JanVD
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thanks for the writeup

don't forget to play with the different settings in smb.conf so you see the differences in "admin"/userexperience

 also don't forget to fine tune the iptables firewall as I've noticed blocking behavior, even with SElinux disabled

By: Kane
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Tons of troubleshooting and iptables was in fact the culprit. Good catch. 

By: Chad Jorgenson
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As the other user said iptables were a stumbling block. Pull up the linux sytem's firewall wizard and disable the firewall as a test. 

By: Nir Cro
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SELinux doesn't have to be disabled to allow file sharing, and it isn't that much of a pain to get samba and SELinux to play nice.

See Sharing Using Samba on Fedora 17 and SELinux\samba

Hope this helped!

By: Anonymous
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I like it post and i will look forward for new Fedora 18

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ya i also like it and can be reached at fudora 18 http://www.techppp.com/2013/08/how-to-find-contact-details-of-unknown.html