OK I don't know what did it, but among the various things I read there, it seems I did something that finally allowed Samba to compile. So thanks for that.
However now I have a slightly different problem. You see I have an MP3 player (Archos 100GB) attached to my Xbox, which works as a harddisk under Xbox Linux.
The purpose of this is so that I can sync my music collection betwen my Xbox and my MP3 player and also so that I can transfer music to my MP3 player wirelessly from my desktop PC and my laptop.
However all that is very besides the point - as the only important thing to remember is that my MP3 player behaves as a hard disk in Gentoox and that it is mounted at /mnt/usb.
In any case previously as I have said Samba was a little unstable (it seems more stable and also faster now since I updated it) as it would tend to cut out a lot and crash when transfering large files.
Nonetheless it did work - and specifically it worked when tranferring files wirelessly to my MP3 player too.
However the long and short of it is that since updating Samba, my MP3 player seems to no longer be writable.
If I try to transfer a file to it, I get a very frustrating 'permission denied' error.
I can't get my head around this, as my smb.conf file has not changed since updating Samba.
Indeed it is still as follows below.
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[global]
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
netbios name = xbox
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
load printers = yes
printing = cups
server string = Samba Server %v
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
workgroup = Xbox
os level = 20
encrypt passwords = yes
printcap name = lpstat
security = user
max log size = 50
[root]
writeable = yes
path = /
[c]
writeable = yes
path = /mnt/fatx/c
[d]
writeable = yes
path = /mnt/cdrom
[e]
writeable = yes
path = /mnt/fatx/e
[f]
writeable = yes
path = /mnt/fatx/f
[MP3]
writeable = yes
path = /mnt/usb
I can't work this out at all. Why would it be writable before a Samba update and non writable afterwards? My Samba.conf clearly shows that it should be writable.
Where else possibly could a permissions issue like this come from? My Fstab file has not been altered either - and all the other directories mentioned above remain fully writable.
It just seems more than a tad odd.
Any help or advice anyone can offer would therefore be very much apreciated.
Thanks!