Edgy - Windows cannot see Ubuntu PC but Ububtu can see Windows

[denzilla74]

If I share a folder in Ubuntu using Windows SMB, I am unable to view the shared dir on my XP machine. Ubuntu however is able to see my shared dirs from my XP machine. I think this was an issue in Dapper as well.

[Emmanuel Touzery (emmanuel-touzery)]

probably a samba problem?

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

Thanks for your bug report.

Have you installed samba and configured it?

Could you please provide us with your smb.conf file, and the output of

dpkg-query -l samba

Thanks

[denzilla74 (denzilla74-deactivatedaccount)]

I am now able to get Windows to see my Ubuntu Samba share, but the problem lies within the way you have to configure Ubuntu Samba sharing. To enable Samba, all one has to do is right-click on a folder, select share and then the user is prompted to select a sharing method. Once thats done, you go to System - Administration - Shared folders, change the Workgroup. At this point the configuration ends and a new user thinks thats all there is to do, which is wrong. What people aren't being prompted to do is set a samba password so they can access the share from another PC. Dropping to CLI and running the command " sudo smbpasswd -a yourusernamehere " is the final step. I went over to my XP PC, went to start-run, typed the path to the Ubuntu share, entered my username and password and everything worked. The samba configuration needs to be changed to prompt the user to create a samba user/pass. If you can do the other samba related stuff without CLI, why should this key step be any different?

[Ralph Janke (txwikinger)]

I understand this as a new feature request that allows user management for samba accounts via gui.

Should be set to wishlist.

Should this be assigned to the various system administration applications (i.e systemsettings in Kubuntu)?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Edgry is no longer supported so Im closing this bug.

Regards
chuck