Give them a genetic login? On read access? I unfortunately haven't set this up for a family. I've just set it up for myself and reused my logon. So, sorry for that my friend.

Just ran into this the other night myself. Turns out I didn't have the path the correct way, cause samba is picky. My original config was set up with the path = /home/user/Public but I had to change it to path = /home/user/Public/ You're path in your reply looks like it's missing that / at the end. After you update, don't forget to restart the service.