Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On 4/11/07, Lars Norén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you have it installed, you can try YaST: Network services - Samba >> Server. First tab 'Start' - start Samba during start-up + open port in >> firewall. Second tab 'Shares' - inactivate everything but Netlogon + >> mark 'Allow users to share...'. Third tab 'Identity' - I never change >> anything there. That usually does it for me: sharing folders over the >> network between Linux and XP - users in Linux decide if they want to >> share a folder and to what extent (right-click on a folder and choose >> 'Sharing options'). >> /Lars > > 1. Yast didn't help. Shares on, 'Allow users to share...'. is on. > 2. Firewall is off. > 3. Users can share only their directories, not entire hard disk. > > How to share RW entire hard disk? (like Win98 or XP) > Not surprising, I do not not let Yast anywhere my Samba config, has a bad habit of removing the bits it does not know about, and re-organising the rest. I am not too sure whether you are using XP home edition or Professional, Home edition only does workgroups .... badly!.
I would spend some time reading the SAMBA HowTo anyway. The problem is probably in the mapping between XP accounts and samba accounts, but not knowing the version of XP in use cannot comment further. I suspect there are no workgroup accounts so everyone is getting as guest with ro rights.
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