Samba on Fedora 18

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I ended up doing the following to get a publically shared folder on F18 after installing samba and samba-client

Used the graphical tool to allow samba through the firewalld (it's just called firewall in the applications) or alternatively kill it with prejudice:
# sudo systemctl disable firewalld
# sudo systemctl stop firewalld


Tell the system to enable and start smbd and nmbd
# sudo systemctl enable smb
# sudo systemctl enable nmb
# sudo systemctl start smb
# sudo systemctl start nmb

Create the folder to share, I chowned mine with nobody:nogroup and created a nogroup entry in /etc/group.
# chown -R nobody:nogroup /media/shared/

Create a nobody samba user
# smbpasswd -an nobody

# sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf
...
[global]
...
    security = domain
...
    map untrusted to domain = yes
    map to guest = bad password
    wide links = yes
    guest account = nobody
...
[share]
    comment = Public Share
    path = /media/shared/
    browseable = yes
    guest ok = yes
    public = yes
    available = yes


Restart samba and you're good to go
# sudo systemctl restart smb

During this process, you can test the status at any point with:
# smbclient -L localhost -U nobody
or
# smbtree

And finally, tell selinux to get lost with
# sudo setsebool samba_share_fusefs on

That should be all you need!

You can view the current status of the SELinux config using:
getsebool -a | grep samba

To make the selinux change permanent after testing, you will need to use:

sudo setsebool -P samba_share_fusefs on