samba problems

[Paul]

My original post described the situation I'm trying to achieve.  Specifically,
I want to give share access to a single windows user and not to others.  
However at the moment, from the windows side, I get a dialog telling me 
access is denied with no opportunity to provide a username or password.
Paul

On Monday 04 August 2008 5:06:45 David Meireles wrote:
> Hi.
> I think you have to add the following options to you share defenition
>
> public = yes
> browseable = yes
> guest ok = yes
> Force user = some user @ the server # Don't know if this one will be
> needed, but try
>
> And of course, you'll have to have the "security = share" definition in
> the [general] part of smb.conf
>
> Paul escreveu:
> > On Sunday 03 August 2008 11:48:13 Karl Auer wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 11:36 -0400, Paul wrote:
> >>> OK, I am now able to access the share from the linux box, but not from
> >>> the windows box.
> >>
> >> How *exactly* are you attempting to connect, and what *exactly* is
> >> happening that is not what you expect?
> >
> > I've been going thru network neighborhood/windows exploder.  The share is
> > shown, but when I attempt select the share (HD3), I'm met with the
> > following error dialog:
> >
> > \\tpt41\HD3 is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use this
> > network resource.  Contact the administrator...
> >
> > Access is denied.
> >
> > I would expect to at least get a user/password dialog before the error
> > message.
> >
> >>> [HD3]
> >>> path = /media/hd3/
> >>
> >> Is this the share the Windows user is trying to access?
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > Paul