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Hi Guys,

I've just installed  7.04 onto a new computer for 2 reasons:

1) To learn about
2) To use it as a NAS for my digital TV shows recorded on my Windows computer

Anyway, during the installation I said for it to call the system quot;quot; and the Administrator will be username quot;Maxquot; and password of quot;so1357quot;.

I then went to the quot;Systemquot; pulldown menu and selected quot;Shared Foldersquot; so I could create a folder to put these TV files into.

In the quot;Share Folderquot; dialogue box, I selected quot;Otherquot; and created a new folder called quot;_Videosquot; so now the quot;Maxquot; directory shows 3 folders: quot;Desktopquot;, quot;Examplesquot; and quot;_Videosquot;.

Also under the quot;Shared Folderquot; dialogue box I went to the quot;General Propertiesquot; tab and changed the quot;Domain/Workgroupquot; to quot;NECAUquot; as this is what my 2 windows computers have as the workgroup.

Now when I go to my Windows machines and open my quot;Explorerquot; I can go down to quot;My Network Placesquot; and under quot;NECAUquot; see the  computer.

Unfortunately when I click on it, hoping for it to show me the quot;_Videosquot; directory, I get prompted for my username and password.  I enter quot;maxquot; and quot;so1357quot; but it doesn't accept it.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?  I've uploaded a screenshot.

By the way, connecting to the Ubunut computer via VNC was so easy and I'm so impressed by that.

Regards

Max

The step that you've missed is to add a user account in Samba.  It doesn't operate from the same accounts database as the system.  Open up a terminal and add your account quot;Maxquot;

# smbpasswd -a Max

It will prompt for a password.  This can differ to the system one you have - or it could be the same, up to you.  Then try again on your windows box.

Many thanks.  Initially it wasn't prompting me for a password, just kept giving me a list of the options and then I realised that the start of each line was:

max@ubuntu:~$

So I had a quick look at a tutorial for NAS and it said to configure Samba you had to log in as Administrator and to do this type

sudo bash

Once I did this, the prompt became:

root@ubuntu:~#

And my entry then worked (ie prompted for a password) and now my Windows machine can see the quot;_Videosquot; directory.

Now I just need to work out why my Zensonic Media Player won't see it when I select SMB.  I thought it just looked for any SMB shared computers.  Perhaps it's because the  machine doesn't have an IP address allocated.  It's not much good having a NAS when the Zensonic Media Player can't see the repository of files.

Cheers and thanks for your help.