Samba Share to Win XP Workgroup
 

I'm trying to share a USB 1TB hard drive on my OpenSUSE10.3 system. I have been able to share the folder that I have created. I have also motified fstab to mount the drive buring boot. Here is my problem; I'm able to locate and mount the folder in my windows environment, but unable to WRITE to it. I have looked all over the 'net for a resolution, but all I find is everything I've tried (chmod etc...) I've gotten so far as to have wanted to start over again, due to the fact that even logged in as root I'm unable to change permissions for this folder, or is subdirectory.

Help please????

hello
 

can u post the smb.conf which you created for the share?
did you set up passwords for users with smbpasswd?

lets see the config perhaps i can help you.

Here is my smb.conf. I have changed some names for security;

# smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented
# version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the
# samba-doc package is installed.
# Date: 2007-09-22
[global]
workgroup = NETWORK
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
cups options = raw
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
logon drive = P:
usershare allow guests = Yes
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain master = no
restrict anonymous = no
preferred master = no
server string = Samba SUSE-10.3
max protocol = NT
acl compatibility = winnt
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto
security = share
map to guest = Bad User
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = False

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No

[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775

## Share disabled by YaST
# [netlogon]

[storage]
comment = phr33k's storage
path = /home/phr33k
read only = No

[BACKUP]
path = /home/phr33k/LaCie/Backup/
guest ok = yes
read only = no
guest only = yes


I have created 1 user for myself, w3hich is my username for the localcomputer. I also attempted to create anoter user as su but it said "Failed to modify password entry for 'user'"

Dear friend

1. Please change the setting in conf file
security=user

2. This is the type of security used to share files to windows.

3. It requires that a user provide a username/password before using the server.
rgds
bil

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I solved the problem, and thank you for all of your help everyone.

Here's what I did;

First, I edited my smb.conf to reflect the change of Security=user
I then created a user and made their home directory the folder I wanted shared

Users can access (thanks to saving passwords in XP) the share to add backup files.