[KLUG Members] help with samba permissions on red hat 9.0

[Mark Bystry]

HELP! haha.

i think i screwed some things up last night on my redhat 9 file server. i wanted to add a user to 
redhat and a user to samba so an employee could have access to some of my files. while i was adding 
the user (gui mode) i accidentally deleted my user account...DOH! so i added myself back and of 
course i could no longer connect via samba from my winxp machine. eventually, after restarting samba 
service and rebooting my winxp machine, i finally was able to map the drive that i needed. however...

i made sure that my redhat user name and passwd were the same as my windows user name and password. 
then i made sure that my samba user name and smbpasswd were the same as my winxp user name and 
password. not sure if that necessary but i like it simple.

also, i have an extra user account called "eng" (which stands for engineering) with a unique 
password. i also checked the samba user "eng" and made the password equal to the redhat "eng" user 
passwd. i use the "eng" account when i map the drive under winxp. don't ask why

right now as it stands, i can view my entire dir structure but only have write permissions to some 
of my folders. i need write permissions to all of them. what do i need to change? i have a folder 
called /home/maple/. i want write permissions to all files and folders under that. hmmm....

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Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2