[plug] SAMBA on Fedora Core 4

[Mike Holland]

James Drysdale wrote:

> This sounds like a file pemissions problem..... so I set all 
> read/write permissions on the extra drives to allow "nobody". (basically 
> no secuiry at all), yet Windows still cannot access the shares.

James,
'nobody' is actually a username, which by convention has minimal 
privileges. You'll find him in /etc/passwd. But its just a unix 
convention. No files should be owned by 'nobody', and it won't help
you with samba.
   Try chmod 755 for directories and 644 for files. Note that users
need 'execute' permission to read directories.
   To test if thats really the problem, just 'su' to whatever username
samba is using on your server. Is it 'guest', or do windows users map to 
unix users on your server?