Ok, I ALMOST got my smb.conf setup the way I want it, but I'm having some trouble doing something that I'm not exactly sure I'm even trying to implement it correctly. I want 3 different SMB shares on one MDK10 machine.

1. /home/user/netshare
All contents open, no password prompt needed to access it, you click on the machine and it shows up and you can READ the files.

2. /home/user/pubdrv
A public network drive. Anybody on the network can read AND write to this directory. Used for photo editing from a laptop to other machine, currently in-use documents on multiple machines, things like that.

3. /home/user
The WHOLE directory, but I want access to it restricted to a username and password. Let's call the user "bob" and password is "pass" I want to be able to open the machine in Network Neighborhood and do the first two shares without even getting a password, prompt, which I can do now. I also have a printer shared in this fashion, as well. But I want a password prompt when I click on the third share, which I'll call "access" I'm posting a copy of my smb.conf file here, I know there's some redundant stuff in it for the free shares, but it works NOW, my question is how do I add the third share without changing the other two?

[global]
load printers = yes
printcap name = cups
printing = cups
netbios name = linuxbox
security = share
guest ok = yes
guest account = user
guest = user
workgroup = WORKGROUP
print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r

[linux]
path = /home/user/netshare
writeable = no
security = share
guest ok = yes
guest account = user
guest = user

[pubdrv]
path = /home/user/pubdrv
writeable = yes
security = share
guest ok = yes
guest account = user
guest = user


[printers]
comment = DeskJet
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
public = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
printer admin = root


Not sure what to do here, anything I try either leaves it open to be viewed, passwords ALL the folders on the machine, or leaves it all open to WRITE. Help! I'm getting better, but I'm still a Linux n00b.

Update:

I think it might be possible to get passworded write access (this would be the only instance a pass prompt comes up) by using

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
writeable = yes
browseable = No

Somewhere in there. Would I need to change the security to = user, or can I leave it as share? I REALLY don't want to make the other folders passworded. Is Samba even capable of doing this? I've heard of people using TWO instances of samba running on one machine, I guess if that's possible and needed for this, I could make one user and the other share, but that seems REALLY out of the way, especially for Linux, which is seeming to be able to do just about anything.

Also curious about how to assign a login/password combination to this share. I don't care if I have to make a new user or not, but I'd like to be able to do this from any WinXP box without installing new users on it.