Re: Samba usershares & permissions problem

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On 27/05/11 05:18, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 05/26/11 at 05:34pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > I have a fairly simple requirement
> >
> > I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a
> > folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files.
> >
> > I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its
> > own, but I then discovered the existance of nautilus-share which
> > should make it so much easier when I want to swap around things.
> You were initially correct. Running samba alone would be simpler from a troubleshooting perspective.
> I suggest you try that, get it working (there are numerous tutorials on the web, forum posts, the archive for debian-user and probably a samba ML) and then compare the config to what nautilus-share is creating.
>
> Also, more people are likely to be familiar with samba itself than nautilus-share.

We I gave up on Nautilus share and just made a bog standard share, 
specified within smb.conf.  That seems to work well and easily meets my 
needs, so will not pursue this further.

Thanks for the other comments in this thread


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Alan Chandler
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