Hi
I have set up a home network on a computer with OpenSuse 12.1 installed using the Swerdna tutorials.

When I try and set the DirectoryA to share in Dolphin or Konqueror by right clicking onto Properties then Share it initially shows a share (and the directory icon changes to a shared directory icon), but almost immediately afterwards it goes back to the original non share version.

Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? Why can't I make this directory a share?

My smb.conf file looks like this -

# smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented
# version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the
# samba-doc package is installed.
# Date: 2012-02-16
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = mainserver
passdb backend = tdbsam
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
map to guest = Bad User
local master = Yes
preferred master = Yes
os level = 65
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
load printers = yes
use client driver = yes
server string = ""
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = False
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
store dos attributes = Yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No
guest ok = yes
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
[DirectoryA]
comment = A Files
path = /home/Buser/DirectoryA
read only = no
valid users = guser +groupA
force user = guser
[DirectoryW]
comment = W Files
path = /home/Buser/DirectoryW
read only = no
valid users = +groupA
force user = guser
[netlogon]
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
write list = root

When I looked at usershares this is the result (which is strange because ONLY wellyboot works - is accessible on the other computers on the network - also I dont understand why I have 2 welly and wellyboot which both access DirectoryW but only wellyboot works? (The others are visible but have read only access, and I haven't been able to change that )

dhcppc5:/home/Buser # ls -l /var/lib/samba/usershares
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 Mar 27 17:59 directorya
-rw-r--r-- 1 guser users 115 Mar 27 23:02 welly
-rw-r--r-- 1 buser users 213 Mar 28 00:13 wellboot

Any ideas?

I finally worked it out!

I had changed directory permissions that I couldnt access, making a share for those directories in root. When I saw they had shares in root, and un-shared them, and hen made them shared but logged on as buser and not root, the shares stayed.