Samba authentication problem when attempting to connect from Windows client

• Are there authentication errors in the Samba logs?
• Do the files on disk have the proper permissions? If a file is read only on disk, it doesn't matter what you tell samba.

On a side note, if your user name in Windows and Linux is the same, then you don't need to add the user to the user map file.

I solved the problem at my server by noting the properties of the folder I was sharing. I had admin as the group and Bj as the user.

So, I entered into the configuration file in the section I wanted to share the following: force group = admin force user = Bj

Now all computers on my network can read and write to that folder.