[ILUG] Sharing folders on External USB drive

[Brendan Kehoe]

Mick O'Toole wrote:
> I've got Ubuntu 8.04 connected to my work domain and attached to it I've got
> an external USB hard drive.  I've got a lot of documents and music on this
> drive that I'm trying to share out across the LAN. I've tried using the GUI
> to share the folder and this seems to work OK until I use another machine to
> connect to it and am prompted for a username and password.
>
> I've tried setting up users on my machine and then also adding them as Samba
> users but I'm still asked for a username and password. I've tried to do a
> recursove chmod on the folders and that makes no difference. I've even added
> the details of the share to my smb.conf file but am still having no joy.
>   

I'm using something like this:

    [global]
        security = user

    [music]
            path = /media/sda3/music
            inherit acls = Yes
            browsable = yes
            browseable = yes
            read only = Yes
            guest ok = Yes

(Other stuff in 'global' but related to printing, workgroup, etc...)

B