hi Terry, > Any thought before I trash the whole thing and reinstall from scratch? There > is clearly something fundamentally wrong with user configuration/permissions, > but unless I can sort it out, using his machine will be a pain.
not having the faintest about the various *buntus, but there will be a 'smb.conf' somewhere, can you compare the one on your machine with that of your son's? also, you might want to see whether the samba users are set up correctly (pdbedit(8), smbpasswd(8)). -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
