*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 24184 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24184
When it turns out to be difficult to implement a graphical password
setup under "System > Administration > Shared folders", the least that
can be done is adding a short help text to the "System > Administration
> Shared folders" window that tells you to execute the
sudo smbpasswd -a 'myusername'
command.
** Summary changed:
- when setting up a simple file share, the samba server has no password set,
and you are unable to access the share from a windows machiene.
+ When setting up a simple file share you are unable to access the share from a
Windows machine, while the samba server has no password set.
** Description changed:
- when asked to authenticate when accessing the windows share on the
- Ubuntu machine from the windows machine, it asks for user name and
- password. the user name is your current but the password is not set
- until you enter the following into the command line:
+ When asked to authenticate when accessing the Samba share on the Ubuntu
+ machine from the Windows machine, Windows asks for user name and
+ password. The user name is your current user name, but the password is
+ not set until you enter the following at the command line on Ubuntu:
sudo smbpasswd -a 'myusername'
- im assuming it should take the password from you user account as the
- password, but if not you should be able to set this password up for the
- samba server graphicaly under System > Administration > shared folders
- without messing about in the terminal for such a simple task.
+ I assume it should take the password from the user account
+ automatically, but if not you should be able to set this password for
+ the Samba server graphicaly via "System > Administration > Shared
+ folders" without messing around in the terminal for such a simple task.
** Tags added: folder name password samba share user
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When setting up a simple file share you are unable to access the share from a
Windows machine, while the samba server has no password set.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103708
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