Re: [Hampshire] Samba for newbies

On Friday 11 January 2008 12:09:16 Alastair Biggs wrote:
> Hi people
>
> I hope you can provide me with information regarding the delights of samba.
>
> Currently I have 2 machines at home one running XP and the other is running
> Debian Etch ( I use XP machine for gaming). Basically I wish to create a
> share on my Debian machine and be able to access it through my XP box
> currently I have installed samba on Etch and have assigned the computer a
> static I.P I kinda tried some experimentation last night and got as far as
> seeing my Debian machine in windows but for some strange reason I cannot
> log into it.
>
> I have read various documentation which is often confusing also there is
> the option of webmin but I wish to learn how to config Samba via the
> command line.
>
>
> If somebody could walk me through the process of setting up a share just
> for a standard user I would really appreciate it. Being relativley new to
> Linux this would be most helpful.
>
> Also another question if I wanted to share a drive in windows and access it
> from Linux how do I go about this? I'm guessing I once again have to use
> smb.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Ally Biggs
>
>

I don't know if this is your problem but I fell foul of this problem when I
set up a new box.

If I mounted the share on my Linux box via fstab (my share is mounted on an
ext USB HD), then the windows users could only read the share, this was
because the system was mounting the share as root. But if I manually mounted
the share once the linux box was up and running as me a user, then the
windows users had full access to the share. I guess there is a way round it
but thats currently on my To-Do list

Its also worth noting that stopping and restarting Samba is recommended after
you have made changes to smb.conf, otherwise the changes won't take affect
until you next reboot.

Tim