Samba Trouble

[Techwhore]

I've got a win2k workstation and Mandrake 8.1 file server.

I've setup samba and can see the linux box from network neighborhood and created an account on linux so that i can access the shares. The account i created is a different name than the logon i use for 2k so it required additional authentication (don't konw if that may matter).

Two problems:

First - I've created a group "sambashare" which the user is a member of and set the shares as chown root.sambashare and chmod 770 for the shares. With the chmod 770 setting i can't access the shares, i need to set it as 777 to have access (i want rwx). Why is that? Shouldn't 770 allow me to wrx from 2k but no one else?

Two - I have some videos i'd like to be able to watch over the network. I've mapped the share to a drive in 2k. When i run the files, windows media player kicks out:

Cannot open. Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=80070005)

I get the same error when i try to just run the files from network neighborhood. The files are infact there, how can i fix this?

Thanks

 

[n0cmonkey]

Any errors in samba? Sure your smb.conf file is setup correctly?

 

[Techwhore]

I actually fixed it... well, it's probably not the "correct" fix but it works.

The folders being shared via samba are also being shared for ftp user. I had to create links in the ftp home dir to the directories themselves so i just changed the samba share directory to the ftp share directory and now it works.

 

[Techwhore]

I actually fixed it the right way.

The directories being shared were chown'd wrong... 😱