Configure Public share on Samba

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 1 May 2005 10:49:21 -0400
JoeHill disseminated the following:

> Next project for my little Debian-server-that-could:
> 
> set up a 'public' share with Samba so that all clients on the LAN can read and
> write to it.
> 
> I've been able to configure it, using SWAT, so that I can access my users home
> dir on the server from my desktop, but there does not appear to be any option
> for creating a 'public' share. I checked the 'Official Samba HowTo' for clues,
> but found no specific mention of how to create a publicly shared folder.
> 
> Any hints appreciated!

Okay, I looked at the smb.conf on my Mandrake desktop, and it gave an example
for setting up what I want, a browseable share, but I still cannot access it
from my wife's WinXP box. Here is the entry:

# A publicly accessible directory
[public]
   comment = Public
   path = /home/samba/public
   read only = No
   browseable = Yes
   public = yes
   writable = yes

and yes, I did restart the samba service. The directory shows up in Windows
Exploder, but cannot be read or accessed in any way.

As usual, I'm probably missing something obvious.

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