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Cant access samba shares from a windows PC

Asked by Sidarth Dasari

I have a linux pc running samba which is sharing a couple of drives. I can access these drives via my linux laptop, however my windows Pc asks for a username/password.

The username and password of the windows pc is the same as the username/password on my linux server. When I try to connect, i get a pop up asking me to log in. When I type in my user name and password, it just prompts me again.

How do I access these drives from the linux server?

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george_rutkay (yaktur) said : 		#1

Let me know when you find the answer - my step-daughter still cannot get past the login of user name and password on the Samba share on my Linux machine as well.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#2

@george
make sure the log ins and passwords of both your linux share and pc are the same. This setup worked for me before, but I had to reformat and now it does not.

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Murali Krishna Marimekala (murali-marimekala) said : 		#3

Hi Sidarth Dasari ,George_rutkay,

Its problem with samba server settings. Please use this link to configure your samba (/etc/samba/smb.conf) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba. Please take a back of smb.conf before modifying.

--Murali

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Murali Krishna Marimekala (murali-marimekala) said : 		#4

If you find difficult to configure samba, I suggest you to use "SSH Secure Shell Client" which is freely available to download at http://www.colorado.edu/its/docs/authenticate/win_ssh.html. Install in windows and you can access total Linux folders remotely.

Note: You should be running samba server on linux for logging into linux.

--Murali

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#5

I figured it out,
I forgot to do the smbpasswd command and activate my user.
You need to do smbpasswd -a USERNAME
It has to be a user that is already in your system
It will then prompt for a password for the user. After that just restart samba and it will work.