Apache2 & suse 9.2 accessing a user directory

I had received a suggestion from the list (email is on other machine at home) to use Alias /datasheets /home/user/datasheets in the httpd.conf file. Tried this with no success. Also added the following Direcctive Options All (Also tried None) AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> All I get is Forbidden You don't have permission to access /datasheets on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Directory permissions are rwxr-xr-- which should give appache read access if I am not mistaken. Has anyone any suggestions or examples of what files to modify to get this to work? /datasheets only contains .pdf files and I want to be able to select a file from a web browser. Art