On Monday 13 June 2005 01:25, Greg Wallace wrote:
I share a linux directory with my Windows machine. Try adding --
wins support = yes security = share
to your [global] section.
Also, I have the following for my "share" (I called it Shareddocs just to have it stick out as a Windows share). I'm forcing the user to the Linux built-in nobody group.
[SharedDocs] path = /etc/samba/smbusers guest ok = yes guest account = nobody force group = MYHOME
Also, be sure the nobody user is set up as a member of the MYHOME group on your Linux machine. Whatever privileges you give it, that's what you'll be able to do from your Windows machine. Also, your Windows machine has to be using the MYHOME workgroup, which I assume it does.
Greg Wallace
Greg, I added 'wins support = yes' and 'security = share' as you suggested and now all the default shares set up by Yast can be seen in 'My Network Places'. The problem is when I enter the User name and password in the login window Windows prepends the name of my Windows machine to my User name like this: MYVIAO/MyUserName and reopens the login window. Windows does give a hint: Example: User Name username@domain DOMAIN\username How do I interpet this? I tried myusername@Linux\myusername and myusername@LinuxLINUX\myusername . Nothing is prepended but hitting enter reopens the login window. I also have a question about adding a share the way you suggested above. Do I create a folder called SharedDoc somewhere to hold the information I want to share? Thanks, Jerome