Category Archives: Samba

Samba Server – can’t login by using Ubuntu user name and password

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

I remember that Samba Server worked very well. but this time I can’t login by using my Linux user name and password after I installed everything. Finally I found out that I didn’t added the user names to Samba by … Continue reading →

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what FIesystem Can be Use as Samba Share

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Question: I have a (what I think is dumb) question… Samba 3.0 uses a default filesystem of NTFS for shares (from reading the man page smb.conf(5)). My question is this: Does this mean that all shares must be NTFS if … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting your Samba configuration

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

If the Samba server doesn’t show up, check the following: If you configured Samba to use plain text passwords, did you alter the registry in the Windows machines so that they’ll send plain text passwords instead of encrypted passwords?If you … Continue reading →

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Samba share permissions simplified

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

by NIXCRAFT on JANUARY 5, 2007 · 30 COMMENTS· LAST UPDATED FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Samba software, is a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between UNIX/Linux and Windows computers. Samba provides – => File and print services => Integration with a Windows Server … Continue reading →

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