[Hozie]

Alrighty. I'm having trouble setting up my mac so as to enable a Win XP box on my network to connect to a single folder. The owner of that folder is me, also the only user on the mac. My smb.conf file is as follows:
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Global parameters
[global]
coding system = utf8
client code page = 437
netbios name = HOZIE
server string = Samba
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
wins support = Yes
guest account = Nik
hosts allow = 192.168
max connections = 3

[Hozie AlBook]
comment = AlBook
path = /Users/hozie/Desktop/Shared Folder
read only = No
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
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Now, using SharePoints, I've added a user called 'Nik' (my brother on the WinXP box whom I want to be able to access the folder 'Shared Folder', which he will see as 'Hozie AlBook' in the workgroup 'WORKGROUP' (which I made sure was the same in Directory access and on the XP box.) The user I created in sharepoints is in the group 'guest'. Now whenever I try to connect from the XP box, I get an error saying it didn't find the network path. I tried using the 'map network drive' option without success. The Mac shows up just fine in the workgroup, but I can't access anything on it from the XP box.

Is anything glaringly wrong here?

Thanks!

[Hozie]

By the way, it might have something to do with the fact that I didn't add the user correctly. Could anyone walk me through the steps fro doing that. I just want to specify a user that would have no home directories, just a name and a password so that user can access the samba share.

[gatorparrots]

Your desktop is not world-readable, so it is not a good place to try to make publicly available shares:

Code:
% ls ~ | grep Desktop
   0 drwx------  13 gator    staff         442 May  7 16:12 Desktop/

No other users will be able to see it. I suggest just creating a new directory: /public at the root level of your boot disk. Otherwise, just share the /Users/Shared directory, which already has the appropriate permissions.

You could use testuser's adduser script to add non-GUI Windows accounts:
http://testuser.eshirazi.com/adduser/

Or just go into NetInfo Manager and change the existing user's settings:
shell: /dev/null
home: /public
(or whichever directory you end up sharing)

[Hozie]

Still doesn't work... I tried to make a folder in /Users/Shared which I called 'Shared', made a new Share in SWAT to point to the share as follows:
/Users/Shared/Shared

I then changed the user I want to login to the share to say:

shell: /dev/null
home: /Users/Shared/Shared

I then restarted the daemons (smbd and nmbd), all to no avail. XP tells me that 'the Network path could not be found'. Is there any way I can run diagnostics to see what's going wrong?