Samba: can see, but not access Linux share

From: Larry Gagnon (lagagnon_at_fakeuniserve.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:37:39 -0800

I have Samba on a home network bwtween my Linux box and my wifes's WinXP
machine. At present I am able to mount WinXP shares on my Linux box and to
print from Linux to our WinXP connected printer. I can also see my Linux share
on the WinXP box. However, I am unable to browse this Linux share from WinXP.
I get the error message:

"\\scorpion\public is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this resource."

A WinXP command "net view \\scorpion" works fine. Obviously I don't understand
something about Samba share logins and passwords. The WinXP box has a
different login name to my Linux box and I have yet to set anything up in
smb.conf. The Linux share is "public". What do I need to do to access this
Linux share from the WinXP box?

Larry Gagnon 

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