FC4 & Maxtor USB One Touch 300GB drive.

[William H. "Will" Du Chene]

Hi list.

I seem to have a bit of a dilemma here, and I was wondering if anyone 
would care to volunteer some thoughts? I purchased a Maxtor 300gb 
external USB drive, and attached it to one of my computers - a Compaq 
Presario 5000 running a fresh installation of Fedora Core 4 that I 
download a couple of days ago.

Everything seemed to be working correctly. I blew away the partition 
that was on the Maxtor drive and created a new one, and mounted the 
drive up as usual. Now here is the wierd part: from the box, everything 
is working fine. I can copy backups onto the drive, and use it as 
normal. When I try to share out a directory on the drive using Samba, 
however, I receive errors from the client machine which prevent access 
to the directory on the USB drive. In the error log, I have a single 
message which tells me that the "<directory in the filesystem>  does not 
exist or is not a directory, when connecting to <sharename>."

Does anyone have any comments or suggestions?

Thank you in advance.