samba shares easier to set up with password

[cornbread]

you still can't just right click on a folder/file say share and it just work.

I had this issue the other day on a box and couldn't connect to it. Kept asking for a password and wouldn't take a blank one. I had to run smbpasswd -a USERNAME then it worked. guest access wouldn't work. (this was done on a fresh karmic install)

would be nice if you could set a per directory password.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Thursday 10,December,2009 05:23 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> I had this issue the other day on a box and couldn't connect to it. Kept
> asking for a password and wouldn't take a blank one. I had to run
> smbpasswd -a USERNAME then it worked. guest access wouldn't work. (this
> was done on a fresh karmic install)
The samba usernames/passwords which is installed by nautilus-share when you
first set up a share, unless you've already manually installed samba from the
package manager. If you have already manually installed samba, then it is
assumed that you have the technical expertise to manually configure samba and
smbpasswd yourself.

With libpam-smbpass, whenever a user logs into the computer with a password or
changes his/her password, the corresponding samba user will be created/modified
with the password given.

> would be nice if you could set a per directory password.
If you have libpam-smbpass installed, this is already possible by managing the
users in System->Administration->Users and Groups, and manipulating the
permissions set on the folder itself.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

this is a feature request so not a papercut

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project

[erik flister (eflister)]

i can't access a password protected share in 21.10 even with the login credentials, what am i missing? ah, explained by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/1554652

[erik flister (eflister)]

combination of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/1554652 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-share/+bug/1956419