Ubuntu Samba password pop-up

[eaganchiro123]

Hello,

I installed Samba on all of my computers with Ubuntu Desktop 9.04. Every time I try access the computer that I have set-up as a server, a password pops up. I put in a password and it just reappears.

Does anyone know how to disable or set a new password for this pop up?

Thank you,

Mike

[D-cat]

This is a fun trip with Samba. Question, do you have Windows computers you must share data with? If not, I'd suggest you try nfs instead.

Answering (sort of) the question, the problem is likely something to do with the user configuration in the Samba server. Samba by default does not link its password access with the Linux /etc/passwd file, but rather maintains its own user/password base that you edit separately.
See: Adding Users to Samba

There's also a good chance that the share you're trying to access isn't allowing "unauthenticated" samba users to access it... this is a permission related issue that's also related to samba's separation of its own userbase from the actual Linux userbase. Even if the share is set to public, you can still get permission denied issues.

Check your logs (like /var/log/samba/log.smbd) for clues.
---
Edit: I'd probably even say sharing data with Samba isn't necessary, I only use it to share my printer. You can use an FTP daemon (like vsftpd) to share data with any client.

[eaganchiro123]

Thank you D-cat, I will try this instead.

Mike