This article was first written in November 2007 for the BeezNest
technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/365).
The easy part is to right-click the directory in GNOME and select "Shared directory…", enter the sudo password, then select "SMB (Windows client)" [1] and possibly unselect the "Read only" checkbox.
This will enable the SAMBA sharing of the directory.
Now when connecting from Windows, you will be asked to enter a login and a password, but even if you use correct a login/password pair, you won't be authorized, because you need to enable the access fr
