Can't create dirs on samba-shares

It worked on another freebsd-box i have. I just copied the smb.conf and set up samba the same way as I did before. However, now, on this new machine, I can't create dirs. Although I can read/write/create/rename/delete any file, AND read/rename/delete any dir.

Under [global] I have;
security = user
directory mask = 0755 # even tried 0777 (and 7777)
(and some other parameters that probably has nothing to do with creating dirs)

[somedir]
path = /somedir
public = false
writeable = true
printable = false

/somedir has been chmoded to 777 and is owned by the same user connecting to the share.

With log level = 9, the log-file says;
unix_convert called on file "\folder"
unix_clean_name [/folder]
Checking folder for 8.3
unix_convert begin: name = folder, dirpath = , start = folder
New file folder
is_in_path: folder
unix_clean_name [folder]
stat of folder failed (No such file or directory)

I don't get the "stat of folder failed (No such file or directory)" line.

Any suggestions?
I've posted this in both the linux and the *bsd forums.

For what it's worth here's my smb.conf file:



Only the user 'munk' can access the shares and only from the address specified. This works fine in a 2 box network, one box win2k. To login to the samba share on the fbsd machine I hit the 'map network drive' button, enter '\\fbsd44_01\all' and then enter the authentication details (ie munk/munkpasswd) when prompted. This exports the 'all' share to a drive mapping in explorer and I can do pretty much anything from there with the (lack of) restrictions imposed on the user 'munk'.

One minor issue on win2k with service packs >2(?) is that you need to tell the Unix smb server that you're sending encrypted passwords from the windows end, and then use 'smbpasswd' to update the smb passwd db with the user/pass pairs for each user you want to allow access to shares on the Unix side.

At the end of the day, keep it simple - I don't know that the log level goes up to 9 by the way, I seem to remember reading it only goes up to 5, but I might be wrong (anything over 5 I imagine would be insane anyway!