[Samba] assistance with setting up a samba share.

[alex wallis]

Hi list.
I am very new to the world of linux and to that of samba.

For some time now I have been investigating how I should go about sharing a 
windows folder between windows and my linux system.

However I have been having a few problems and I hope that someone on this 
list might be kind enough to help me.


At first, I was trying to get smbfs working to share the folder, but I 
understand this has now largely been replaced by cifs.

The system I am running is a virtual machine with vmware work station and it 
is debian based.

I am using a command line interface with no gui.

the share I want to set up is as follows.

I want to share a folder called rockbox which is in the root of my windows 
machine, I want to set it so that its files are displayed in a folder called 
rockbox on my linux virtual machine, and I want linux to have read and write 
access on this folder, and all sub folders and there files under rockbox.

My windows machine has no password on it, and several tutorials i have tried 
to follow say I should set the user name as guest in this event.

I was wondering if someone could please tell me exactly how I should go 
about setting up my share so that it mounts every time i boot the virtual 
machine, and exactly what commands I need to enter.

as each time I try to set the share up i get an error about not being able 
to change to the target directory.
I have smbfs installed, and I have made sure the rockbox folder is shared 
under windows, the windows i am running is windows xp pro with sp3.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Alex. 


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