On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 10:12 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 03/12/2010 12:31, Matthew Daubney wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > >> I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared > >> folders on the Windows Machine. > >> I have installed Samba and changed the Workgroup name on the Ubuntu > >> machine to match that of the Windows 7 machine. > >> The Ubuntu machine sees the 7 machine, but all that happens when I try > >> to access the shares is that the log-on screen keeps returning and I > >> can't access the shares. > >> Any thoughts as to what I should be looking at? > >> > > Have you allowed a user to the share in the smb.conf? And have you added > > the user to the samba database using smbpasswd? > > > > -Matt Daubney > > > > > > This is trying to access a Windows 7 share FROM Ubuntu - I didn't think > that involved Samba? > Ah, I had the question backwards then. You are using your windows username/password? You may need to prefix it with the machine name i.e. if your Win 7 machine was called bistromath it might be "\\Bistromath \Username" or somesuch.....
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