Comment 4 for bug 24184

This is still an issue in Feisty. After setting up a new SMB share and setting the permissions of the shared directory to global read/write, other Ubuntu computers (those with the same username/password on them) are able to connect to the share without problems.

However, Windows XP clients on the network cannot access the share without a username and password being entered. Unless 'smbpasswd -a username' has been run, the username and password entered on the Windows computer will never be accepted, so the share is inaccessible. There should probably at least be a graphical interface for smbpasswd, as I imagine a lot of users come up against this issue.