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Re: [LUG] File Sharing with Windows

 

Tom, to edit samba username and passwords you can use a generic LDAP
editor, or specialised software like GSMB for GNOME, or web
applications like Webmin and ChangePassword.

A list is available here, although not all of these allow password
edting: http://us1.samba.org/samba/GUI/

Regards, Ross Bearman



On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Tom Potts
<tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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