Samba will not open up Sub-Directories

[FIBOTI]

I'm running samba on my F11 machine. I have it set right now to be open so that there's no need to type in username and password information. It works great. I can type \\*IP Address* on my WinXP laptop while on the network, and it brings me to the Public folder that I'm trying to share. But, when I click on the folder to open it up, it just sits there and eventually will give a userid/password prompt or will give me an access denied error.

Here is my smb.conf:

#SMB.CONF

[global]
; netbios name = FIBOTI
interfaces = lo eth0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
security = share
guest ok = yes

[Public]
path = /home/ian/Public
read only = no
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = yes
available = yes
create mask = 0777

Can anyone see what could be causing this? I've been trying everything and can't seem to figure out what's going on.

-EDIT-
Tried following the end of the samba guide here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=94257 with no success

-EDIT2-
After reading this: http://linuxintro.com/?a=WCMS_Page_D...34001250706922 I disabled SELinux, still no luck

-EDIT3-
I am able to ping from F11 host to winxp laptop and from laptop to host

[aesir]

My guess is that directory permissions are wrong.

In your smb.conf there is no "guest account = " option, so when you connect to the samba server you are mapped to "nobody", which can't read inside your home directory.

To solve this you can map guest to "ian" (but this is a bad solution security-wise), or create a new user and give it permission to read just in the folder you need (which will have to be outside of /home/ian)

[FIBOTI]

Awesome, that's what the problem was! Thanks for the help