Configure Public share on Samba

[JoeHill]

On Sun, 01 May 2005 13:41:38 -0400
Kevin C. Krinke disseminated the following:

> > 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!
> 
> Here's what I've used in the past. Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add this
> block to the end of the file, then restart samba after saving the file.
> 
> #############################################
> [public]
>         comment = Publicly shared files
>         browseable = yes
>         writable = yes
>         create mask = 0644
>         directory mask = 755
>         public = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         path = /path/to/your/public/directory
> #############################################

Okay, first off, I'm an id10t. I didn't create the appropriate path, ie.
/home/samba/public.

I'm at the point now where if I open the shared dir on the Win box, I can see
inside, but I cannot write to it. I believe I have a perms problem. Currently I
have:

joehill at node3:/home$ ls -l
total 56
drwxr-xr-x  27 joehill joehill  4096 2005-05-01 12:03 joehill
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root    49152 2004-09-20 04:37 lost+found
drwxr-sr-x   3 root    staff    4096 2005-05-01 13:51 samba

I would imagine I have to chown, but to what?

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