i have samba setup and have shares working, i can see and browse the share from winxp and create files in the share. i have setup another samba user so i can see my home directory from winxp as well but i cannot write to it from winxp.

i have a 2 user names setup with smbpasswd -a that works with my linux share (/share)

i have another user setup with smbpasswd -a (my linux login name) that i use to see that users linux home directory (/home/slacker). i can see this directory but cannot write to it.

to clarify, users nbk1w4a and jerry can rw to /share, user slacker can read /home/slacker but cannot write to it

my smb.conf:

[global]

netbios name = sl4ck3r
workgroup = corp

server string = %h server (Samba %v)


; wins support = no
; wins server = w.x.y.z
dns proxy = no
; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast


log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

####### Authentication #######

; security = user
encrypt passwords = true
passdb backend = tdbsam guest
obey pam restrictions = yes
; guest account = nobody
invalid users = root

######## File sharing ########

# Name mangling options
; preserve case = yes
; short preserve case = yes


#======================= Share Definitions =======================

[nbk1w4a]
comment = Jerry's Linux Share
path = /share
read only = no
guest ok = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[jerry]
comment = Jerry's Linux Share
path = /documents
read only = no
guest ok = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[slacker]
comment = Jerry's Linux Share
path = /home/slacker
read only = no
guest ok = no
browseable = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next
# parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them.
writable = yes

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
create mask = 0777

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
directory mask = 0777

nevermind. i had to change the permissions to my home folder to 777 to allow others to rw

thanks!