[CentOS] Unable to share directory via Samba?

Quoting James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com>:

> Hmm some progress has been made.
>
> I removed the smb.conf file and wrote a new  one manually but  for
> some reason it only wants to let me connect as "Guest" and not a real
> user with some privileges?

try with log level = X
(Sets the amount of log/debug messages that are sent to the log file.  
0 is none, 3 is considerable.)

and then read the logs.

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Eero