[Klug-general] Baffled again - samba networking

[Nathan Friend]

Hi Mike,
You need to set the user's samba password.  More info here:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/smbpasswd

Cheers,

Nathan.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Michael E. Rentell <
michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Good morning all,
> Another knotty problem. For reasons I won't bore you with I've switched
> from Mandriva/PCLOS to Linux Mint for both my home network (2 PCs wired
> through a router).
>
> I've never used Microsoft networking and samba before (previously nfs) so
> I'm way outa my depth here as that's all the networking on offer it seems.
>
> When ever I try and 'see' files on the MAIN machine (I have 'shared' them)
> from the BACKUP machine I get a password demand. As this is a ubuntu
> derivative there is only the one password for me and that doesn't work.
>
> How do I find out what password it requires?
>
> I'm sure this is a trivial problem, but only for those who 'just know'. And
> I don't.
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> MikeR
>
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