Samba...

[jean gruneberg]

>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm having problems mapping a drive to my new Ubuntu box.  I'd shared
>>> out a directory, given everyone read permissions, samba is running, etc,
>>> but even a simple "net view" command from XP gets an error 5, access
>>> denied.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?  I don't need super tight security, it's my internal network,
>>> I just want to be able to move files around.
>>>     
>>
>> Did you share as a NFS volume or as a samba share?
>>   
> 
> 
have you added a samba user, normal users on Ubuntu and Samba users are 
2 different things....

smbpasswd -a <user>
type in password at the prompt.

Jean