Samba Shares

[Luca Ferrari]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 semaj3000's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
> I am attempting to share a folder from my Ubuntu 7.10 computer to my
> windows xp pro sp2 pc.  All of the firewalls are off and uninstalled on the
> linux box.  On the windows machine I have windows firewall off and disabled
> with kaspersky internet security. I set the workgroup to be the same on
> both computers, set the computer name. Shared out my home folder, added
> user account with password.  Now I go back to my windows machine and browse
> the workgroup and I can see the machine but if I double click on it it says
> I am not allowed to access. I have enclosed the windows error. On the
> Ubuntu box I cannot view the other windows computer.
>

Hi,
are you sure that the window machine is not sending an account username like 
\computerName\userName? This can cause problems. Moreover check if the window 
machine has other network shares mounted, in that case it will send the same 
username and password to the samba server, and if it is not right it will not 
allow you to access the share.
From the linux box, if you cannot smbclient the clients, try to add their ips 
to /etc/samba/lmhost and try to do a nmblookup against the client name.

Hope this helps,
Luca