I used a simple guide to share one of my folders on the local network, but I can't access it from a Windows machine
Solution 1:
The problem isn't samba. It's Linux permissions on the /media/steen folder. It only allows the user steen to traverse the /media/steen folder to get to what is mounted under it. This is by design.
Fastest way out of this is to:
** Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and right under the workgroup = WORKGROUP line add this one:
force user = steen
** Save the file then restart samba:
sudo service smbd restart