Well it seems that the samba gods have been good to me today. I had a slight altercation where I could not write to a samba share I created. This is how I solved that little problem.
First you have to have all the correct settings in the smb.conf file. You usually find this in /etc/smb.conf or /etc/samba/smb.conf. Here are the settings for my share.

[SAMBASHARE]
   path = /home/dmacias/Desktop/SambaShare
   comment = /home/dmacias/Desktop/SambaShare
   valid users = dmacias
   public = no
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   wide links = no

Now you need to restart Samba. Do this with the following command: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart



Now if you try to connect from windows to the share you just created, you should be able to see it, but not connect to it. To connect you need to do the following command:



smbpasswd -a -U dmacias



Change the password and you are set.



*This is my configuration, you need to adapt yours to your system, your users, your passwords, your file locations.



Hope that helps some, do not worry it gets easier with time.

-dmacias

Well, not a siginificant update, but just some minor ones. Check geeklog.net for all the details.



-david macias

Looking around, actually by mistake I found a public ntp server hosted by Texas A&M point your machines to ntppub.tamu.edu. It is stratum 2 FYI.

-david macias

Through Vanilla Skies with Open Eyes: Spanish and American Movie Interpretations



This is something I wrote for my socialogy class, I had not writen a non-technical paper in quite some time, so I hope I did a good job.

-David MaciasAbre Los Ojos is a Spanish, French, and Italian production directed by Alejandro Amen

So it seems that when you search for David Macias on google.com I am not in the top results. What does that mean? It means that people who might be interested in finding me (old friends, family members), will not be able to locate me using google and just my name. So what can be done?If you are familiar with how google works, you might know about page ranking and how people can manipulate search results. Of course this takes more than one person however I am a patient man, and slowly but surely I will climb up the google.com latter. I will post a new story periodically detailing my undertaking and my results, but I will give you a small hint misearable failure



-david macias