Samba: can see, but not access Linux share

I have Samba on a home network bwtween my Linux box and my wifes's WinXP
machine. At present I am able to mount WinXP shares on my Linux box and to
print from Linux to our WinXP connected printer. I can also see my Linux share
on the WinXP box. However, I am unable to browse this Linux share from WinXP.
I get the error message:

"\\scorpion\public is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this resource."

A WinXP command "net view \\scorpion" works fine. Obviously I don't understand
something about Samba share logins and passwords. The WinXP box has a
different login name to my Linux box and I have yet to set anything up in
smb.conf. The Linux share is "public". What do I need to do to access this
Linux share from the WinXP box?

Larry Gagnon

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This is a common problem -- at least there is two of us. I should not
think this is a problem related to passwords. Please read the details of
the smb.conf man pages concerning access rights as well as e.g. the
unofficial samba howto pages http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/client.html

regards

--theo

Larry Gagnon wrote:
> I have Samba on a home network bwtween my Linux box and my wifes's WinXP
> machine. At present I am able to mount WinXP shares on my Linux box and to
> print from Linux to our WinXP connected printer. I can also see my Linux share
> on the WinXP box. However, I am unable to browse this Linux share from WinXP.
> I get the error message:
>
> "\\scorpion\public is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> this resource."
>
> A WinXP command "net view \\scorpion" works fine. Obviously I don't understand
> something about Samba share logins and passwords. The WinXP box has a
> different login name to my Linux box and I have yet to set anything up in
> smb.conf. The Linux share is "public". What do I need to do to access this
> Linux share from the WinXP box?
>
> Larry Gagnon
>