[chris.coops]

Hey tinners,
well done on the good work, your setup looks pretty good.
I've been doing some research on the home server/media server function myself with a view to doing something like yourself.

I'd be interested to know if you did any additional configuration of your linux installation, specifically for accessing the shares from windows computer. I've only played around a little with ubuntu but the small steps I've taken have proven difficult to get a windows computer to access the share, and require using the same usernames and passwords on both computers.
Although it lowers security I've always wanted to provide access to the shares to the computer, and therefore anyone using the computer, so I'd be interested to see a little more information on what you've done to give this access.

Of course if you've still specified user security then it's too much trouble to replicate users on the linux server that are already on the windows computers...

Cheers
Chris