Comment 23 for bug 14774

I also ran into a bunch of these problems today with the released gutsy version. Here is what I found:

Using "System::Administration::Shared Folders" I can easily share a folder but if I try to access it from a remote machine no combination of username/password will work. To fix that I had to run the following commands in a terminal:

1. sudo -i
2. smbpasswd my_ubuntu_username
3. (then I enter a brand new password for SMB use only)

At all time, I kept the default security settings in smb.conf (that is I used security=user). I think that the SAMBA team generally advises against using security=share (I read this in some RHEL documentation page). The security=share security model is what Windows 95 and 98 used. Finally, as a side note; I'm pretty sure that the NTFS sharing issue outlined by Robin Haswell above has been fixed in Gutsy. I shared a NTFS mounted drive with no problems at all.

I'd love to see some kind of way to create a share without dropping into the command line. Go Ubuntu!