Hey everyone, i am fairly inexperienced and am trying to set up samba so that my windows pc's can access a specific folder on my linux machine. So far, it seems that the printer sharing works, but the folder sharing does not. Here is my smb.conf file:

[global]
; General server settings
netbios name = FamilyServer
server string =
workgroup = MSHOME
announce version = 5.0
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

passdb backend = tdbsam
security = user
null passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast

wins support = no

printing = CUPS
printcap name = CUPS

syslog = 1
syslog only = yes

; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the
; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content.
;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller.
; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter.
;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no

; NOTE: Again - only needed if you're running a primary domain controller.
;[Profiles]
;path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
;valid users = %U
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0700
;writeable = yes
;browseable = no

; NOTE: Inside this place you may build a printer driver repository for
; Windows - I'll cover this topic in another HOWTO.
[print$]
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
write list = root
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = yes
guest ok = yes
browseable = no

; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive
;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

[MyFiles]
path = /home/share
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = no
create mask = 0644
directory mask = 0755
force user = nicolas
force group = nicolas

I have added myself as user, and another (to test on a windows xp comp - with no password).

Thanks for the help!

I'm not sure why you used "force user" and "force group" both equal to nicolas. Do you have a group named nicolas?

Make sure you add your user to the host machine and then with smbpasswd to samba. If you don't care about sharing your printers with guest ok=yes, you could add that to your folder share too. If you want access to YOUR home files, uncomment the section where it allows that in [homes]

I presume you've studied the excellent documentation at www.samba.org

Hope that helps; don't forget you have to restart samba after making any changes to smb.conf and that you should run testparm first.