Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-24 Thread John Doe
From: Joseph Hesse > The problem is my wife's Win7 laptop which is running some sort of home > edition of Win7.  I did everything I could in control panel to enable > file sharing but I still can't see the Samba share.  I can ping the > computer running Samba?  I tried to launch "gpedit.msc" b

Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-23 Thread Mike McCarthy
Chances are there is firewall software on the laptop blocking it. Mike On 10/23/2013 05:19 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Samba on my Centos 6.4 computer. Smbstatus says my > version is 3.6.9-151.el6-4.1. > > My smb.conf file only has a [global] and [homes] section. > > My co

Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Samba on my Centos 6.4 computer. Smbstatus says my > version is 3.6.9-151.el6-4.1. > > My smb.conf file only has a [global] and [homes] section. > > My configuration works, as expected, from a Win7 Virtual Box compute

Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > > Do you think it would work if I upgraded Samba to the latest version > 4.1? Should I consider upgrading to Win7 professional? I believe win7 home only supports simple file sharing, which precludes its ability for mounting real sh

[CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-23 Thread Joseph Hesse
Hi, I just installed Samba on my Centos 6.4 computer. Smbstatus says my version is 3.6.9-151.el6-4.1. My smb.conf file only has a [global] and [homes] section. My configuration works, as expected, from a Win7 Virtual Box computer and a Win8 Virtual Box computer. I can see the share from the W