So I'm trying to figure out why Samba won't allow me to share the folder: /home/admin/data on my home server; but it will share: /home/ just fine. /home/admin/data is chmodd'ed 777 because its gonna be the 'public share' folder with nothing personal in it, the user is admin, the group is users. Whenever I try to access the folder from my laptop TO the server; I get "Access Denied" Relevant SMB.conf section: [Public] path = /home/admin/data/ available= yes browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes create mask = 0777 guest ok = yes [admin@server ~]$ ls -l total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:09 data drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 12:58 ftp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 21 13:49 http [admin@server ~]$ Just incase this is the issue: the permissions on /home/admin (the admin folder specifically) are [admin@server home]$ ls -l total 4 drwx------ 5 admin users 4096 Oct 21 13:53 admin [admin@server home]$ So could the problem be that /home/admin's permissions wont allow me to share a subfolder, even though the subfolder's permissions are fine? If so; what would be an okay permission setup to use for /home/admin so that I CAN share /home/admin/data, without letting everyone have access to my overall /home? The reason im doing Samba instead of NFS is because there's windows machines on the network as well