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[William Pritchard <question170483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #170483 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/170483

William Pritchard gave more information on the question:
Hi Actionparsnip,
I have solved this using a samba GUI (system-config-samba) but not without difficulty. Editing the smb.conf file was too risky as I have little experience of the syntax rules. I can now access selected files on the network and selected files on a usb disk and expansion drive from a windows XP machine and Ubuntu machines. I can also now print from a windows machine on the network. Authentification of the download of the Samba GUI on one machine on the network was not able to be authenticated from the Ubuntu list (untrusted source), which I found was a bug described on launchpad.I successfully installed from the terminal as advised. Downloading the Samba GUI on other machines went without a hitch as I did not run into the bug again. Access to files was ticked as  'everyone' but access to the usb devices had to be a single user name otherwise access was denied. 
Many thanks for your help,
William

--- On Thu, 8/9/11, actionparsnip <question170483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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From: actionparsnip <question170483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Question #170483]: Access usb drives on network
To: wdnp2@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 12:10

Your question #170483 on samba in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+question/170483

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
You can use nautilus to share them or you can manually edit
/etc/samba/smb.conf

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