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Re: [LUG] File Sharing with Windows

 

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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