How to share a folder in fedora

[yzpdsg]

I installed Fedora 10 in vmware and I've installed samba and vmtools.In windows vista's "network ",I can see nothing.But in Fedora,I can see the folders shared in windows.What's the problem with the sharing?

[savage]

Have you setup your shares in /etc/samba/smb.conf? Use the following format:

[shared]
comment = Not necessary, but can be helpful
path = /path/to/share
browseable = yes
read only = no
valid users = savage

Start the smb and nmb services with:

service smb restart
service nmb restart

Don't worry if it says failed when 'Stopping service...', it just means it wasn't running to start with.

You need to have 'smb' and 'nmb' set to start with the system, without nmb, Windows can't see Fedora shares:

chkconfig --level 35 smb on
chkconfig --level 35 nmb on

Make sure your firewall has ports 139 and 445 TCP open to accept input:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 139 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 445 -j ACCEPT

[yzpdsg]

I've tried your way,and make a directory like /home/yzpdsg/share,but windows still can't see fedora's folder.When I typed 'service smb restart'and 'service nmb restart',nothing happens.Is it a problem?
PS:Now fedora can see windows folder correctly.

[yzpdsg]

I reboot fedroa and now windows can see an extra computer 'LOCALHOST'online,but it doesn't have the folder I want to share,but the shared folder from windows.Fedora can now see an extra computer but can't get access.What's the problem now?I've attached some pictures to express more clearly.

[yzpdsg]

Can anybody tell me why I can't see my attachments?

[savage]

Can you post your smb.conf file so I can take a look?

[d3n0]

How have you configured networking in vmware, did you choose bridged networking or NAT?

[yzpdsg]

I chose NAT to access internet in vm.

[d3n0]

You can try to setup bridged networking. It is easy if you have a router and if it is configured as a dhcp server, or else (if it doesn't work as a dhcp server) you can assign your vm an static ip. Your virtual machine should be then reachable with that address.

I have not used vmware server for a long time so I don't know if something changed, but I can tell you that virtualbox has easy to setup shared folder option and it works with NAT, and it is not required to install samba for that to work.

[yzpdsg]

I've learned a lot from your words.I really appreciate it!