[dundee] hard disk icons and users (was Compile woes)

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:55:01PM +0100, James Robertson wrote:
> windows xp sees the computer but when i click on the samba sever in xp
> it asks for a user name and password? 

Edit your smb.conf to include the lines:
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = yes

; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next
;       parameter to "no" if you want to be able to write to them.
   read only = yes

; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want
  to
;       create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to
  0775.
   create mask = 0700

; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you
  want to
;       create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to
  0775.
   directory mask = 0700

Most of them are probably already there, make sure browsable is yes.
Then you will need to run `smbpasswd` to set your samba password.
There's probably also a way to get samba to just use the /etc/passwd
file but I'm not sure how.

Using LISA and Konqueror to browse the other way seems to work well.

Jonathan Riddell