[CVALE] Samba and XP

[Matt R Hall]

On 10/21/06, dan at imabiz.com <dan at imabiz.com> wrote:
> Well, here I am again beating my head against the wall.  Hope someone
> here can give me a clue....

I would suspect Linux first in this case. The simplest sharing config
that I have personally used and know will work is as follows:

[global]
...
        passdb backend = tdbsam, guest
...
[data$]
       comment = Data
       path = /data
       username = foo
       write list = foo
       browseable = no
...

Set the directory to 755 for the user you want to have access, or 775
and add the user to the directory's group. Remember if you add users
to groups you must log out and log back in before it takes effect.
Also because Samba is a bit strange I would also restart the Samba
daemon to be on the safe side. Don't forget to run smbpasswd to set
the user's password in the Samba password file because Samba's hashes
are not the same format as UNIX hashes.

> -- Dan Langhoff
Good luck,
Matthew Hall