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:Pengy: I have Ubuntu Server installed with Samba. I'm trying to create a share so Windows XP machines can access and put files in it, so i can continue to install Joomla. I can see and write inside the Home Directory and it has a bunch of .bash files.

I cannot write or access the 'Share' folder I made, i can only see it from the XP box. Windows tells me "No network provider accepted the given network path" error , "you might not have permissions to use this network resource" That is the folder i want to use for file sharing. My username for the box is tc.

I edited the smb.conf like so:

Code:

  [homes]

  comment = Home Directories

  browseable = yes

  read only = no

Code:

[Share]

  comment = For any user to see

  writable = yes

  valid users = tc

  write list = tc

  path = /home/username/mnt/share

This is my Global config:

Code:

[global]



## Browsing/Identification ###



# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of

  workgroup = MSHOME



# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field

  server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)



# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:

# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server

;  wins support = no



# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client

# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both

;  wins server = w.x.y.z



# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.

  dns proxy = no



# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names

# to IP addresses

;  name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

Thank you for reading!

you probably need to share the whole path. Try adding this:

[username]
path = /home/username
browsable = no

[mnt]
path = /home/username/mnt
browsable = no

do you see 'share' then ?

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSCTC

[Share]
comment = For any user to see
writable = yes
valid users = tc
write list = tc
path = /home/username/mnt/share

Is it the username of a user or an actual directory /home/username/mnt/share.

Here's my Common share directory

Code:

[datashare]

  browsable = yes

  comment =

  inherit permissions = yes

  path = /home/data/

  read only = no

  writeable = yes

  browseable = yes

  guest ok = no

  printable = no

Quote:

Originally Posted by karelvdm

Hi,

Is it the username of a user or an actual directory /home/username/mnt/share.

Here's my Common share directory

Code:

[datashare]

  browsable = yes

  comment =

  inherit permissions = yes

  path = /home/data/

  read only = no

  writeable = yes

  browseable = yes

  guest ok = no

  printable = no

Ok that worked better, i can now access the 'share' and write to it. I have one question about that. I now see 2 folders a 'Share' & 'tc' folder and they both have the same exact files inside, when i copy a file into one it shows on other. (See screen shot below). Is that normal?

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Thank you for the great responses!

Should I post questions here about http: browsing index files from Joomla folder or make new thread?

I now see 2 folders a 'Share' & 'tc' folder and they both have the same exact files inside, when i copy a file into one it shows on other. (See screen shot below). Is that normal? :scratch:

I cannot access the 127.0.0.1:631 any more. I don't know why.

Thanks for your help.

A billion thanks to you.