Josh Schumacher: A PHP Developer

If you are attempting to connect to a samba (smb) share and you are denied, there’s a high probability your user account hasn’t been granted access to the samba server yet. To grant a user access use the smbpasswd command line tool.

1. SSH to the samba server
2. Log in as root
3. smbpasswd -a username
4. Enter password (twice) – no characters will appear on the screen

Interesting note: if you aren’t logged in as root, the smbpasswd command line tool can be used to change you samba password.