man its like 2 am... i dont know what anything says anymore... but i do have some good news: i did that smbpasswd -a nobody and then went to XP and logged on as \\myserver\nobody with no password and i finally got in. So now I know it works and I can see all the Fedora 8 files and folders.

Now I just gotta straighten out all the crap and figure out how to manage everything properly. Also how I do get the damn folder to stay mapped so all i gotta do is click on it.

sleep time.

omg all i had to do was go to add network place in windows and it shows all the folders including share1...

balls!

Thanks everyone for your help. Really, I appreciate it very very much!

When you map a folder, there should be a check box to reconnect at login or similar.

Glad it worked

Now think about going to user security - add eacc of your users to samba and you can automatically use your linux home dir

in the end you should end up with being able to access it without having to give a user name and password...

on mine /home/public is owned by a user (example janedoe) so in home there is /home/janedoe and /home/public

in samba guest = nobody and guest user = ok

security = share which means the security level is set as per that shares permission (thus the share level)

owner and group settings on the open samba shares are for janedoe, read access is set to everyone (774 I think) with the public upload at 777 with read/write access

the share mapping in smb.cfg is per the shared folders in /home/public.... when I browse to the server (I have not setup mapd drives...) on the network I see the shares listed in the cfg that are in /home/public

if heetsmb is an actual users home dir then you should probably put the stuff you wanted on the network in a folder and call it share1 (as that is what you are calling it in your cfg) so that you have /home/heetsmb/share1

if you are dead set on mapping the drive then do as billy said.. and I will be quiet now

Don't be quiet! Thanks for your input! I read everything like 4 times over that you guys wrote. I understand whats going on a lot better now.

Hope to talk again sometime

Here is a post which walks you through setting up samba on linux: Setting up samba on CentOS/Fedora