Samba share issue

[Tsquad]

Hello, im wondering if it is possible to have a samba share on my ubuntu 9.10 desktop version to my win 7 desktop, of my sftp users root.I have an sftp server set up via ssh with a rooted user "sftpuser" and i would like to have that same folder shared to my main pc's desktop so i can just drop stuff into it. Im sure this is possible but im just not sure how. I have followed some guides on making samba shares to win 7 but they all make their own new user for it and chroot it. None are using an existing rooted user.

[atreyu]

Yes, you should be able to do that - at least I just did it. In my example, my sftp chrooted user is "test", and the homedir is /home/test (which is owned by root, per sftp root reqmts) and the subdir "data" is the sftp area for the user.

Put something like this in your smb.conf

[testdata]
    comment = user test's sftp data
    path = /home/test/data
    valid users = test
    browseable = no
    guest ok = no
    writable = yes
    printable = no

Then restart the samba daemon:

 /etc/init.d/smb restart

Also, add the test user to the samba password file:

smbpasswd -a test

Then from your Windows box try to access the "testdata" share on your Linux box, as your "test" user.