Samba Access Denied from XP

[anakey93]

Hi - i've set up a samba share via webmin following the guide located on the Webmin site - when i try to access it from an XP Client i get an access denied error message. I've checked and double checked all of the settings but can't see what i'm missing. I'm pretty sure its not a firewall issue because i managed to successfully create and write to an existing share....this problem seems to occur when i create new folders....

I'm fairly new to this so any advice is greatly appreciated. :confused:

[glennzo]

Try smbpasswd -a nameofxpuser, so if the user logged into the XP box is anakey93 then type, as root in a terminal, smbpasswd -a anakey93 and press enter. Press enter when prompted for passwords also. Next, type /sbin/service smb restart and /sbin/service nmb restart. Try to connect again.

[anakey93]

Hi Glennzo - I have tried that previously as part of previous troubleshooting attempts.

Its strange because if i just go and share /tmp for example it works fine - it seems to be when i create new shares....even when i chmod 777 - i've even created a folder within /tmp called testtmp tried to share that and got the Access Denied error....i know its going to be something really stupid that i'm missing...