unable to share a 500GB external hard drive on a Windows network

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 16:30 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I have a Sony Vgcra820G that I am trying to share a folder off an
> external 500GB hard drive. I am using Nautilus and go in to
> Places/Scott/sdownloads and click on sdownloads and go to share and tick
> the checkbox for sharing using the name downloads and then telling it to
> share the folder. But when the Windows clients see it they say that they
> can not access it.  it also looks from my side as though for some reason
> the folder is not getting mounted.  Where should I begin my research on
> this problem? 

Got samba installed and configured?? Ric

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