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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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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