On Gutsy Gibbon; I just tried to share a folder as suggested in the end of this screencast but when I tried to access this share from my Windows machine I kept getting "access denied" regardless or what password I used (I tried my ubuntu username/password, and also stuff like username "guest" with no password etc). After asking around in the #ubuntu channel on FreeNode IRC I finally understood what the problems where though.
The default installation of SAMBA will be set to use "user-level security" which means that each time a Windows machine wants to access data on the Ubuntu smb share it must supply a username and a password. However, the SAMBA password is not the same password as your normal Ubuntu password. Instead, you must explicitly set a special SMB password which is associated with your normal Ubuntu username/password.
Assuming that your normal ubuntu username is "ubuntu_user"; to set a SMB password for your Ubuntu user account you need to start a terminal and then type these commands; first you run "sudo -i", then you run "smbpasswd ubuntu_user" and then you enter a brand new SMB password (you need to enter it twice to confirm it).
Another problem I had, was that on my computer I see nothing when I go into the "Windows networking folder". I'm not really sure why that happens, maybe it's because I don't have any central Windows-server in my home network, or maybe it's because I'm using Windows 2000?
A third and final problem I had was that, in the "Connect to server" dialog; I tried to enter the name of my Windows machine (which is "equilibrium") but that just plain didn't work. Apparently, Ubuntu does not understand how to convert the hostname into an IP address (because the windows machine hostname is not a real resolvable internet hostname, it's just a local area network name). For example, I can't type "ping equilibrium" in a terminal either, I must write the IP address of the Windows machine all the time. This is annoying because it's hard to figure out what the IP is and it changes every now and then (all my machines boot using DHCP). Need some ZeroConf/avahi magic here plx :-)
This is a great screencast (even though it would be nice with another one which deals with these issues). All in all, I am amazed by both how easy to use Ubuntu is and also how good the Ubuntu screencasts is. Great work guys!!!
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On Gutsy Gibbon; I just tried to share a folder as suggested in the end of this screencast but when I tried to access this share from my Windows machine I kept getting "access denied" regardless or what password I used (I tried my ubuntu username/password, and also stuff like username "guest" with no password etc). After asking around in the #ubuntu channel on FreeNode IRC I finally understood what the problems where though.
The default installation of SAMBA will be set to use "user-level security" which means that each time a Windows machine wants to access data on the Ubuntu smb share it must supply a username and a password. However, the SAMBA password is not the same password as your normal Ubuntu password. Instead, you must explicitly set a special SMB password which is associated with your normal Ubuntu username/password.
Assuming that your normal ubuntu username is "ubuntu_user"; to set a SMB password for your Ubuntu user account you need to start a terminal and then type these commands; first you run "sudo -i", then you run "smbpasswd ubuntu_user" and then you enter a brand new SMB password (you need to enter it twice to confirm it).
Another problem I had, was that on my computer I see nothing when I go into the "Windows networking folder". I'm not really sure why that happens, maybe it's because I don't have any central Windows-server in my home network, or maybe it's because I'm using Windows 2000?
A third and final problem I had was that, in the "Connect to server" dialog; I tried to enter the name of my Windows machine (which is "equilibrium") but that just plain didn't work. Apparently, Ubuntu does not understand how to convert the hostname into an IP address (because the windows machine hostname is not a real resolvable internet hostname, it's just a local area network name). For example, I can't type "ping equilibrium" in a terminal either, I must write the IP address of the Windows machine all the time. This is annoying because it's hard to figure out what the IP is and it changes every now and then (all my machines boot using DHCP). Need some ZeroConf/avahi magic here plx :-)
This is a great screencast (even though it would be nice with another one which deals with these issues). All in all, I am amazed by both how easy to use Ubuntu is and also how good the Ubuntu screencasts is. Great work guys!!!