[ale] samba and tutorial for samba newbie

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Any input is appreciated.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com>wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I started trying out samba so I can access my Linux box from my Windoze
> machine.
>
>
> I run Mythubuntu 10.10 on my mythtv-server.  It has two drives
>
> /dev/sda1 -> mounted as / which has the os
> /dev/sdb1 -> mounted as /mnt/windir which has some stuff on it.  It is a
> NTFS partition.
>
> I setup samba and when I type
>
> \\10.10.10.10 I see the share of the home folder /home/coolguy
>
> I have added coolguy as a valid user for samba.
>
> I am unable to share /mnt/windir even though I have listed it in my
> smb.conf file.
>
> It shows up in the listing when I do \\10.10.10.10, but when I double click
> on the vides folder which is the name for /mnt/windir, it tells me I dont
> have permission.
>
> /mnt/windir is owned and mount by root but has 777 permissions for itself
> and for the contents as well.
>
> Not sure what is missing or what I am not understanding right.
>
> -Narahari
>
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