Ubuntu Share Problem

kkelly · 16 May 2009 at 12:57

Hi guys

I have a odd problem if i right click and go to sharing options and share out a local folder, I am able to access this from my other machines. However if i do the same on a folder sitting on a usb drive I can see the folder name but cant gain access to it. I am using the guest account as it is only myself who will be accessing these files.

I don't think this method of sharing it using samba as none of my shares are in the samba conf file any help guys?

Thanks Kevin

kkelly · 21 May 2009 at 17:16

Thanks for the replies guys I will let you's know how I get on at the weekend

kkelly · 24 May 2009 at 11:16

Hi guys,

Still cant this to work, my smb.conf is the following now;

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
security = share

[HD-CEU2]
path = /media/HD-CEU2
read only = Yes
guest ok = Yes

taken from here : http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#anon-rw

I am still get permission denied when I try and access the external drive

Any ideas?

Thanks Kevin.

kkelly · 24 May 2009 at 23:08

Fixed changed the drive from fat32 / ex4 worked first time

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