Setting up file sharing between Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows XP (Samba)

[CrimsonTurkey]

Hello everybody, im new at the fourm but ive been using Linux for a few years now and im trying to make a server to share files via Samba but alas i have hit a wall it wont let me edit the smb.conf file i have found a few things about this problem on the forum but none of them seem to work could someone please advise me on what I should do.

Terminal:
sudo gedit /ect/samba/smb.conf

It then opens an empty smb.conf and gives this error in the terminal:

(gedit:3872): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.RUD00V': No such file or directory

(gedit:3872): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

The location of the smb.conf is /etc/samba
Its set to read only.

[sangsterthegangster]

lol I do this all the time...

you typed in

sudo gedit /ect/samba/smb.conf

when its really

sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

you got the 't' and 'c' mixed up in "/etc"

[CrimsonTurkey]

Yup thanks that was it but I have another problem now when I try to restart samba it gives me this error:

chris@BlueTouch:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found

:/

[Morbius1]

First, never run a gui with sudo it's

gksu gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf

Second, there is no "samba" daemon any more and the new one isn't in init.d so try this instead:

sudo service smbd restart

[CrimsonTurkey]

Yeah that was it. My File sharing systems up and running now the files are copying over to my system now thanks all