Samba Server Help Needed

[John]

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 <mhoy06 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Mike Hoy <mhoy06 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Samba Server Help Needed
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> 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/
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