[Samba] Samba works only with ROOT & Samba Client can't access Windows XP Shares

[Matthew Easton]

Perhaps the problem is that samba doesn't know about the ordinary  
user accounts?

At the command line on the samba server, you may add an account to  
samba with:

	smbpasswd -a your_unix_account_name

You will be prompted for a password twice.

If that isn't the issue, then I would expect that problem is that  
your ordinary user isn't a member of whatever group has permission to  
access the share.


On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Nathaniel Dube wrote:

> I just started learning to use Samba.  I just have the default  
> shares it
> starts with.  When I try to access them I can only use the ROOT  
> account to do
> it.  How can I use my normal account, that I have on the system, to  
> access my
> shares from another networked computer?
>
> The other computer is running Windows XP and I setup shares on  
> there as well.
> When I browse for host I can see it but it wont let me access any  
> or even see
> a list of shares.  I used the default settings for Windows shares  
> on Windows
> XP.  I realize this last part isn't related to Samba but I am  
> trying to
> access those shares from a Samba client.
> -- 
> Nathaniel Dube
> AvatarofVirgo at gmail.com
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