Can't get user logins and guest users to work at the same time on Samab

[juliushibert]

I've converted an old Xbox in to a Samba/NAS for my media centre (win 7) and laptop (OS X). I've installed SWAT as well to manage it.

I'm trying to get it setup so that there's a user which has access to my ~/ and a guest user which just has read access to ~/Media so that the Media centre can read all the files from it without having to login.

I think I've created the users ok and when the security type is set to USER I can login using my user name and password and access the Home Share which points to ~/ but I can't access the ~/Media share.

However when I reset the security type to SHARE (as I've read in this forum a few places). It allows me to login but every share says it's unable to access them (from both my laptop and media centre). But when I just login as a guest (no user/pass) I can access ~/Media

Really confusing, but I guess I'm probably missing something stupidly obvious?

[juliushibert]

I've managed to have a bit more of a play with Samba and SWAT today and the problem seems to be when Security = USER -- I'm able to login and access both ~/Media and ~/ as two seperate shares.

However when I set map to guest from Never to either bad user or bad password, then I can access the ~/Media share but when I try to access the ~/ share I don't get any login box just an error saying I don't have permission to access the share.

Here's my smb.conf in case that offers any luck?

# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 192.168.1.65 (192.168.1.65)
# Date: 2010/07/10 20:39:16

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = MS_HOME
        server string = %h server (Samba %v)
        obey pam restrictions = Yes
        passdb backend = tdbsam, guest
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spas$
        syslog = 0
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 1000
        dns proxy = No
        ldap ssl = no
        panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
        invalid users = root
        valid users = gil, live
        write list = gil
        hosts allow = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0/254
        hosts deny = 0.0.0.0

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home/gil/
        create mask = 0700
        directory mask = 0700
        browseable = No

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /tmp
        create mask = 0700
        printable = Yes
        browseable = No

[print$]
        comment = Printer Drivers
        path = /var/lib/samba/printers

[Media]
        comment = Media Files
        path = /home/gil/Media/
        valid users =           
        write list =
        guest only = Yes
        guest ok = Yes

[gil]
        comment = Home Directory of Gil
        path = /home/gil/
        valid users = gil
        read only = No