Hi,

> Samba has been setup and can be viewed over the network, permissions are
> working fine, server name being displayed in Network Neighbourhood as it
> should be. I would like a share called 'Documents' but cannot for the life
> of me figure out how to get it to show up on the Windows machines as a
> network folder called 'Documents'. Instead it's showing as the full path
> '/home/users/docs/.
>
> Any ideas or am I just being a complete muppet?

Could you please provide your smb.conf?

Usually samba doesn't show the real path but instead an arbitraty share name.
Maybe it's possible to judge from your smb.conf, what's up with your samba.

Ciao

Ralf

"Daniel H" wrote in message news:<40ab2bb2$0$6333$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net>...
> Having a slight problem with Samba running on Mandrake 10.0 and wondered if
> anyone had any ideas...
>
> Samba has been setup and can be viewed over the network, permissions are
> working fine, server name being displayed in Network Neighbourhood as it
> should be. I would like a share called 'Documents' but cannot for the life
> of me figure out how to get it to show up on the Windows machines as a
> network folder called 'Documents'. Instead it's showing as the full path
> '/home/users/docs/.

my first thought is that sounds a difficult thing to do. You need a
section name in smb.conf to delinieate the start of a new share, and
it takes the share name from the section name. So I have, among
others:
[olddata]
browseable = yes
comment = Historic information, mainly due to be deleted
create mask = 0444
guest ok = yes
path = /export/t3disk1/historic
read only = yes

and that produces:
>net use
Status Local Remote Network
OK H: \\Pvserver1\olddata\ Microsoft windows network