shared folder problems

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Neary wrote:

> On 26/06/06, JimD <Jim at keeliegirl.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>
>> The easiest way to share folders with samba in Ubuntu is to just edit
>> /etc/samba/smb.conf.
> 
> 
> 
> Is it? I'd argue the easiest way is to use the provided GUI in Gnome,
> myself. Once I was using a proper back-end for network area sharing that
> worked (Samba, not NFS), it worked fine.

Or the GUI provided in KDE.  Editing smb.conf is practically guaranteed to
b0rk things at least once before you get it figured out.
-- 
derek