Mike, Did you set the samba user account password to match your windows user login? So for example, to logon to Windows you use a username of myuser and password of password then you'll want to setup your samba password on the linux side. For example, $smbpasswd -a myuser New Password: password Re-type: password Then restart samba and then re-login into windows. This should keep it from asking you for a user and pass when trying to access your shared folder on linux from windows. John --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Mike Hoy wrote: > From: Mike Hoy > Subject: Samba Server Help Needed > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6:14 PM > Hello, > > I tried to set up samba on my laptop so I can share between > my windows > machine and this Ubuntu laptop. Going to be adding a third > computer > soon so I'm trying to get this done right before I > build the third. I > have no experience with networking so I'm sure I'm > missing something > obvious. > > In Ubuntu (laptop) I can go to Places > Computer > > Network Servers and > I see Windows Network, then I open that and I can see > "HOME". That > shows Dell-Desktop and Mike-Laptop. I can click on > Dell-Desktop and > that opens a new windows. I try to create a file there and > it says: > Operation not supported by back end. > > In windows: > I go to My Network Places > View Workgroup Computers > > Mike-Laptop > > and that shows: > > MyFiles > PDF > Printer and faxes > > I try to open MyFiles and it asks for username/password, > but every > combination I try doesn't work. > > This is the guide I followed. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202605&highlight=setup+samba+windows+network > > The only thing I didn't follow in it was use WINS > because it said not > to if I use dhcp. > > Any help appreciated. > > smb.conf attached. > > > -- > Mike Hoy > http://www.saguarosports.com/ > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss