[Samba] Newbie: Directory Not Accessible

[Deryck Hodge]

On 1/31/06, linux at 1067wwtl.com <linux at 1067wwtl.com> wrote:
> I am a newbie to samba. I have successfully setup a similar samba share on 1 machine in the past.
>
> I have everything setup as User access with the pcguest as a guest account. If I create a share to
> the /tmp, network users can access normally. I created a directory /var/snd and set permissions to
> be rwxrwxrwx. I changed the smb.conf so that permission were identical to the share for /tmp. I
> restarted samba. But, Windows XP network users cannot access this public share (while they can
> still hit the share to /tmp). Both shares are visible on the network.
>
> This has got to be obvious to others, but I don't get it. It has to be a security setting. I can
> post the smb.conf here, but it is so basic, that it would probably be meaningless.
>

Are you trying to allow guest access to the new share just like with
the /tmp share?  Go ahead and post the smb.conf, too.

Cheers,
deryck

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