Samba Issue

[just_cruising]

I have samba setup and running but I have an issue when I browse 2 of my shares they come up with "Windows cannot access \\MediaServer\Movies. The 3rd "TV Shows" I can access without any issues. Below is my smb.conf file


[global]
name resolve order = hosts wins bcast
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
announce version = 5.0
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
null passwords = yes
passdb backend = tdbsam
wins support = true
netbios name = MediaServer
writeable = yes
server string = MediaServer
printing = CUPS
workgroup = WORKGROUP
syslog only = yes
os level = 20
valid users = nathan
printcap name = CUPS
security = user
syslog = 1
; General server settings





; NOTE: If you need access to the user home directories uncomment the
; lines below and adjust the settings to your hearts content.
;[homes]
;valid users = %S
;create mode = 0600
;directory mode = 0755
;browseable = no
;read only = no
;veto files = /*.{*}/.*/mail/bin/

; NOTE: Only needed if you run samba as a primary domain controller.
; Not needed as this config doesn't cover that matter.
;[netlogon]
;path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
;admin users = Administrator
;valid users = %U
;read only = no


; Uncomment if you need to share your CD-/DVD-ROM Drive
;[DVD-ROM Drive]
;path = /media/cdrom
;browseable = yes
;read only = yes
;guest ok = yes

[Music]
comment = Music
writable = yes
path = /media/Music


[TV Shows]
comment = TV Shows
path = /media/TV Shows

[Movies]
comment = Movies
path = /media/Movie

[wyliecoyoteuk]

Just a thought, but are the "Music" and "Movie" paths definitely correct?
Might they be "music" and "movie"?
Remember that Unix is case sensitive, (whereas Windows is not)

[Toz]

What are the permissions on the files/directories in /media?

ls -l /media

[Morbius1]

As a follow on to what Toz is asking for, you have a global setting of:

valid users = nathanSamba will allow access only to the user "nathan" but you also have to make sure that "nathan" has Linux permissions to access the actual folders.

[just_cruising]

What are the permissions on the files/directories in /media?

ls -l /media

Sorry for delayed reply, the output is as follows

drwx------ 1 nathan nathan 4096 2012-02-16 16:37 Movies

[Iowan]

I'm a bit curious:

"Windows cannot access \\MediaServer\Movies

[Movies]
comment = Movies
path = /media/Movie

drwx------ 1 nathan nathan 4096 2012-02-16 16:37 Movies

Is it Movie, or Movies

[just_cruising]

Thanks Iowan, you pointed something out I had missed. I also changed to "global" for default service under Webmin. Now I can connect to all shares and also map them via Windows7. I can also restart the samba service and it now reconnects without fault.

I also think it may have been that I hadn't mounted one of the drives, can I add a script to do this via startup?

[Iowan]

I also think it may have been that I hadn't mounted one of the drives, can I add a script to do this via startup?
I'm missing most details, but check into /etc/fstab.