samba shares reject samba username and password from Windows

Question

I'm running Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS on a HP Micro server. I've edited smb.conf and added a share called files right at the end of the file (as per hours of googling) as below

[files] Path = /media/files Read only = no Browsable = yes Valid users = %S Comment = Shared Files

I have a user called brett with a password. Brett also has a home directory, which I CAN access via windows as a mapped drive, but I can't get the "files" share to work.

What am I doing wrong please? I'm a noob at Ubuntu/Linux but far from a noob at Windows

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 12 '13 at 12:19

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You probably need to add the user to samba: smbpasswd -a myuser

edited Feb 12 '13 at 12:19

Eliah Kagan

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answered Feb 12 '13 at 08:21

bibble235

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Nup, double checked that. But thanks very much for responding so quickly :-) – BiggyRat Feb 12 '13 at 08:35
This is what I was missing, as a more basic Ubuntu newbie. Thanks user2060608 – Sridhar Sarnobat Sep 22 '13 at 02:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '13 at 10:10

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Turned out system-config-samba run from the terminal as root did it. Samba config GUI doesn't accept any password. That's where I went wrong. Run it within terminal, and away you go!

answered Feb 15 '13 at 10:10

BiggyRat

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samba shares reject samba username and password from Windows

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