I am running fendora 4, I am trying to make a simple file server on my home network, I have 5 computers that will connect to this server, I know nothing about linux to even go about this, I can get my windows computers to see the server and even see what the server is shareing put when ever I try to open up a folder on the server it says I do not have permissions, I check samba and the permission is set to everyone. I also want to share a whole hard drive not just a folder, is there anything in linux like windows when I can right click a hard drive and share the whole thing ?

what you share is just what's defined in your samba config: /etc/samba/smb.conf or similar. there is no concept of sharing a whole drive, as there are no drive letters here. if the directory you share just happens to be an entire drive then that's the whole drive. simple. as for permissions... samba can't override existing unix filesystem permissions, so you need to ensure that any user can write to the relevant filesystems locally first.