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Greetings - I'm attempting to share files between a machine running SuSE 10.3 and XP. I had it for a minute, but now the Windows machine can't see anything. I deleted out a few of the defaulted file shares that I did not believe were required (probably were).
In addition, I would also like to be able to be able to read and write to the windows machine (as with the linux machine).
Any ideas as to where to do would be appreciated. I'm not good at command line, so I'm better with the GUI.
Since you did not mention it I am going to assume that you have not yet installed samba. This is the application that not only installs the server to allow for filesharing but also the client that lets linux connect to windows shares. just install samba as a start.
Sorry - forgot to mention that I had installed it. I've installed SMB4K, which appears to be very cool, however, I'm not sure how to get around it. When I initially started tinkering with this, there were 5 shares that were set up (only one by me). I deleted out three of them as they didn't seem necessary and that may have caused things to go haywire.
Something tells me I need to start from scratch. Can you give me any ideas?
I have never seen it create 3 shares. Normally it just setups the config file to allow access to users home directories, and printers on the system. What is it not doing exactly? Can you post your smb.conf file just as a baseline.
try changing that on yours and and creating a share group and assigning that share group permissions as group owner to the directories. I am sure your way will work using acls but I have never used acls so I can only give advice based off my current expierence with Samba.
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