Justin, Attached is my smb.conf file, which shares each user's home directories such that you can write them from Windows. I just set this up a couple days ago to share files between my host Ubuntu OS and WinXP running in vmware, and it worked beautifully. I suspect the part you might be missing is "security = user". The one thing you'll need to do is run "smbpasswd" for the linux user your wife will be connecting as; that user will need to have access to the files in question.
Good luck! -- Derek Monner Ph.D. Student & Graduate Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Maryland, College Park 301.405.2775 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Justin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is probably extremely simple; I'm just not getting it. > > > > I have a linux fileserver at home, and I've set up my home directory as a > samba share so my wife can get at my music and pictures that I keep there, > and mapped it as a drive letter on her machine. I've symlinked a few other > folders into my home directory (other family member's home directories, etc) > so that she can get to them all in one place – as far as she's concerned > it's just 'J:/bobs_stuff' even though it's really more complicated than > that. > > > > She can browse those folders fine, but does not have write privileges. I've > got all the folders set to 775 – and all of the users are in the 'family' > group, so it should work (it works via SSH). She has write access in my > home directory – the 'root' as it shows up on her end. I have writable = on > and createmask = 777 in smb.conf, so I don't know why it's not being passed > to the linked directories. > > > > Any suggestions on how I can get it to work? > > > > - Justin
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