Renegade — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:29:50 +0000

Oh yip, that works perfectly for me now Thanks

teammatt3 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:50:35 +0000

lol, I went through your steps and it worked fine. No home directory listing, just the shared folder. Take a look at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Line ~215, the "[homes]", "comment = Home Directories", "browseable = no" should all be commented out. Are they?

Oh, I forgot, don't forget to restart smb when you're done. /etc/init.d/samba restart

Renegade — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:55:25 +0000

Still getting the same thing, here's exactly what I did:

1, removed my samba account - "sudo smbpasswd -x "
2, removed my shared folder entry in samba panel
3, "sudo smbpasswd -a "
4, added my shared folder by clicking into the folder

teammatt3 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:03:14 +0000

Yeah it did. But the second time around when I did it, it didn't. I think it was because of the thing I put in bold down in the list.

First go back into the samba admin panel thing, and delete all your shared folders.
Then add a new one by clicking add.
In the path navigate to the directory you want to be shared. Don't just highlight it, click into the folder so you can see the content of it. Then hit open.
Set the shared name to "Shared" or something like that without spaces.
Add a comment if you want.
Leave the other stuff defaulted.
Click ok, on the other panel, make sure you see the folder icon with something like "/home/matt/Shared", then click ok.

Head back over to windows, and in windows explorer go to \\Beef\Shared where beef is the comp's name, and Shared is the name of the shared folder you specified in samba. If you get prompted for username and password enter it in, and you should see the shared contents, without the the home directory available. How's that work for you Renegade?

Renegade — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:09:05 +0000

To bring up an old thread... teammatt3, when you did this on your network, did you end up sharing your entire home folder as well? Because I did, how did you get it so only the shared folder is shown and now your entire home folder?

JeevesBond — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:34:16 +0000

Wish I'd seen this, could have saved you some time as had exactly the same problem a few months ago.

The Ubuntu forums are very good (content-wise). Naturally the best way to manage a group of computers is to create a proper domain: LDAP really blew my mind though, will give it another try sometime. If you work it out first Matt: let me know.

teammatt3 — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:27:55 +0000

I figured out how to do it. Here is the page that I found that helped me out. You have to type

Quote: sudo smbpasswd -e

and then the steps I did above will work.