Do I need a [MyFiles] header for each path entry?

Question

I want to share two folders on my Ubuntu box for my W7 machine to use. I typed [MyFiles] only once, then a separate block entry for each path. When I testparmed, only the last path was shown.

Answer 1

I assume you're talking about Samba, given you've mentioned the testparm utility.

The section headers in the smb.conf file represent the different shares Samba will provide. So if you've added a [MyFiles] section, then Samba will share it as \\hostname\MyFiles to Windows machines.

Each share serves the files from a single folder, so if you want to share two different folders you will need to configure two shares in the smb.conf file (with different section names).