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I need some assistance with the Samba server setup and to enable the file sharing with a Win XP PC. The followings described with what I have done on my Linux box;
I had added a new hard drive onto my server as /dev/sdb and has created a directory as 'departments' as the mount for this drive. I had also created few more sub-folders within departments such as it, finance & etc for file sharing purpose.
In the Samba configurations I had configure the correct directory path and also create & enable the folder share based on the respective sub-folders available in departments. Somehow I am not able to browse nor to view these folders from my Win XP PC though I am able to see my server was listed in My Network Places.
I wonder if I had missed any configuration within Samba?
Well, I have the above problem fixed and it seems the Linux firewall is causing this to me. Though I am able to login using my Samba credentials and accessing the folders accordingly but I am not able to write on all these folders.
Whenever I try to either save a file or write a file to these folders, I am receiving an message indicating 'Access has been denied'. All these all been done from my Win XP PC.
I do not seems to encounter the same problem when I do the same from the Linux box itself. Any ideas what could be wrong again?
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