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On Wednesday 27 August 2008 16:33, Robin Cornelius wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > peter wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I am trying to access one of my Ubuntu directories from my Windows > >> computer. > >> > >> The drive comes up in the window$ screen, I click to open and I am > >> invited to enter a user name and password. I put in peter (which is my > >> user name on the Linux machine) and my password for peter, which is as > >> far as I ever get. > > > > It wants the Windows username and password, not your Ubuntu one. > > Presumably the directory is setup for sharing from Windows? > > I would guess it wants a samba user name and password, presumably the > share is not set to guest=yes which should avoid this. Alternatively > use smbpassword to create a new samba user and password which can then > be used from the windows box to login (uness you've got samba talking > pam or something integrated) . As a matter of interest is there a GUI (in ubunutu or anywhere else) for this. The filesharing gui allows smb sharing but not setting the smbuser/passwd Tom te tom te tom > > Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html