I have the following /etc/samba/smb.conf
config setup to share my homes
and a custom folder named /var/itc_data_feed
:
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
read only = no
[itc_data_feed]
comment = ITC_DATA_FEED
path = /var/itc_data_feed
read only = No
After editing this file I restarted smbd with the following command:
sudo smbd reload
I would expect to be able to access these on windows OSs through Start->Run: \\myservername\someuser
or \\myservername\itc_data_feed
but neither are working.
What am I missing or doing wrong?
UPDATE
It seems that I cannot connect using the servername but rather I must use IP address. Once I use IP address I am asked to authenticate with my linux credentials; however, I am wanting an open share that does not require authentication.
To achieve this I intentionally omitted the valid users
line but I am still being asked to authenticate, why is this happening?
writable = yes
instead ofread only = no
. You might also eventually (once it's working) wantvalid users = %S
to limit access to homes based on the samba user.