Any Linux gurus in here?

[Dr_Avalanche]

I've installed Ubuntu on one of my computers, and I'm trying to get it and the laptop to talk to each other (share folders, specifically) using Samba, with little success. Anyone who could help me troubleshoot the thing?

[Dr_Avalanche]

Progress! Zone Alarm was playing some tricks on me.

Everything works, except that the Windows machine can only see the top level of the shared folder on the Linux machine. I wonder why that is...

[Eliezer]

May be a little late, but check the file permissions on the linux machine in question and check that the "execute" permission is granted to the directories.

Run a "ls -la" command. You should see something like this as the top two lines:

drwxr-x--- 16 root root 4096 Dec 10 10:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Dec 7 08:15 ..

To read/traverse a directory both read and execute permissions must be granted.

You can change them with "chmod 755 ." if you are in the director in question or if you're in the parent directory then use the directory name.

Hope this helps with the inability to look at the sub-directories.

[Dr_Avalanche]

A simple work around solved my problem, though I might follow your advice when I'm sober and feel like fiddling around with the details. For some reason, my problem only occurred when I pointed the share at the root directory of a hard drive. When I pointed it to a folder, I could traverse any number of sub directories.