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Sharing an external hard drive in Ubuntu using Samba

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is where my hard drive is mounted automatically. I created a symlink using: I'm setting up smb.conf like this: Also, in the section I tried adding the following lines: The problem is that when browsing the shared folder in Windows 7, I get a "\\etc\myshare1 is not accessible" error. When pointing t…

Error Output

ln -s /media/MYDISK /home/camilo/MYDISK
chmod 777 /home/camilo/MYDISK

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edit to include in the section from this thread, worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1710811

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