Threepwood
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Been trying to set up samba so I can have shares to my windows machine.
I have followed this guid to the T, http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-samba-server-on-ubuntu/, but it's not working right. I thought it strange that it asks to set the password before making a user in that file, but I don't know if that's right or not.
Also
On this guide,http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/SAMBA_Filesharing, it has a mention of something else I haven't tried yet,
Is this going to help my problem which is that, I can see the shares from Windows, but cannot access them, it gives an access denied error as far as I can remember.
I have followed this guid to the T, http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-samba-server-on-ubuntu/, but it's not working right. I thought it strange that it asks to set the password before making a user in that file, but I don't know if that's right or not.
Also
is confusing me, should the user name be written between the <>, as in say:<username> = "<username>"
i think the latter is the right one?<user> = "<user>", or like this, user = "user"
On this guide,http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/SAMBA_Filesharing, it has a mention of something else I haven't tried yet,
Andrew adds: "You may have problems accessing your share from other computers afterwards. To fix this issue do the following things. Launch the run dialog by pressing Alt+F2. Enter the command gksudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf then enter your password when prompted. Find the security section of the configuration file. Change "user" to "share" and remove the semicolon from the start of the line. Find the guest account section. Change "nobody" to your account's username and remove the semi colon from the start of the line. Save the file and restart your computer"
Is this going to help my problem which is that, I can see the shares from Windows, but cannot access them, it gives an access denied error as far as I can remember.