samba - Nov 2013 - windows can not see the content of samba shared folder

Hello,
I want to access a shared folder on my linux from a windows machine. The
smb.conf has this entry

?? [samba_share]
??????? comment = QEMU share place
??????? path = /media/samba_share
??????? valid users = mahmood vb
??????? public = no
??????? writable = yes
??????? printable = no
??????? create mask = 0777


Then I added a user to samba with "smbpasswd mahmood". The folder mask
is 777 as below


?? $? ls -l /media/samba_share/
?? total 11200
?? -rw-rw-r--. 1 mahmood mahmood 11467604 Nov 23 09:53 setup.exe

As you can see it contains one exe file.
Now in windows side, I run

?? c:\> net use z: \\10.0.2.2\samba_share
?? The command completed successfully

?? c:\> z:
?? z:\> dir
?? ...
?? 0 File(s)???????? 0 bytes


Is there anything that I missed in the configuration?



Regards,
Mahmood

On 11/23/2013 4:15 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to access a shared folder on my linux from a windows machine. The
smb.conf has this entry
>
>     [samba_share]
>          comment = QEMU share place
>          path = /media/samba_share
>          valid users = mahmood vb
>          public = no
>          writable = yes
>          printable = no
>          create mask = 0777
>
>
> Then I added a user to samba with "smbpasswd mahmood". The folder
mask is 777 as below
>
>
>     $  ls -l /media/samba_share/
>     total 11200
>     -rw-rw-r--. 1 mahmood mahmood 11467604 Nov 23 09:53 setup.exe
>
> As you can see it contains one exe file.
> Now in windows side, I run
>
>     c:\> net use z: \\10.0.2.2\samba_share
>     The command completed successfully
>
>     c:\> z:
>     z:\> dir
>     ...
>     0 File(s)         0 bytes
>
>
> Is there anything that I missed in the configuration?
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahmood
Mahmood,

Is this a standalone system?  If it is, did you create the linux user 
mahmood also?

Dale