Samba server comes pre-installed on MythTV and set up to share the default recordings, videos and music directories. To our thinking, the choices made for these shares are badly made. Firstly, the workgroup "MSHOME" is chosen as the domain to belong to. Secondly, I don't really care if the media directories are shared.
The following Samba configuration may be more of use to you:
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/etc/samba/smb.conf:
[global] workgroup = WORKGROUP server string = %h server (Samba, Mythbuntu) log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 1000 syslog = 0 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d dns proxy = no security = share [Root] comment = Root Directory path = / public = no browseable = yes writeable = yes write list = @joeblow
Once you've made these changes to smb.conf, don't forget to recycle Samba for them to take effect:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
Or, for later versions of Mythbuntu (e.g. 12.04) that use init, recycle it like this:
stop smbd stop nmbd start nmbd start smbd
Also, you may want to add a user or two so that they can access the shared directory:
smbpasswd -a joeblow
Supply an appropriate password (remember, this needn't be the user's login
password).
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