Hi,
I have an 80gb hard drive which i am trying to setup as a little 'dumping ground'.
I am able to copy files from my Windows Computers onto it, but once they are on the files cannot be read - it says i do not have access. I have tried opening .rar files and they say the file cannot be opened, and i have tried watching .wmv files and they say i have no access.. I have chmod'ed the network directory where it is mounted to 777, and i have setup Samba so that read/write access is enabled.
I am not sure what to do next, how can i let Windows computers access/stream files on my linux server?

Thanks!

It's done in 3 layers..

First the share must be accessible by the username connecting..
This depends on your SECURITY= setting..
Either a user, security = user
or "guest", security = share

Use smbstatus to view the connections..

Then the directory must be accessible by the logged-in user..
both by samba and by linux..

Then the files must be accessible by the logged-in user...

So a simple guest share would look like..
[global]
...
guest account = files
...

[pub]
path = /pub
guest ok = yes
read only = no
writeable = yes
browseable = yes

and all files and directories are owned by user & group files
chmod to 660

Thanks!
Worked perfectly.