On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 20:59 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2005 19:01, Mark Nixon wrote: > > Thanks. Now, from my wife's computer, I'm asked for a password, but the > > password I set up isn't recognized. I've been messing around, and I've > > probably messed something very basic up. > good, some progress then? > okay, as someone else has already mentioned, normal user passwords (ie your > login passwords) are not used by samba - you'll need to add your users to > *samba's* password database before they can authenticate. > for example: > smbpasswd -a stuart > will prompt for a password for the (already existing) user stuart and add him > (and his new password) to the samba db. This can be the same as the normal > login password, but it doesn't have to be. > > once you have done this you should be able to authenticate as stuart from the > windows boxen... > > Stuart Hurray! Success! My wife's computer can now see my shares. I simply went to menu->system settings->server settings->samba->preferences->server settings->security settings and clicked mark for guest account, and voilà, I can now get and put files from her computer to mine. Now to see her computer from mine (-: As we say in Danish, tusinde tak, or a thousand thanks. Mark
