Josh Schumacher: A PHP Developer » linux http://blog.joshschumacher.com The biggest and the best in the Northwest Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:54:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Enable Samba Access For A User (Linux) http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2009/10/23/enable-samba-access-for-a-user-linux/ http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2009/10/23/enable-samba-access-for-a-user-linux/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:59:44 +0000 Josh Schumacher http://blog.joshschumacher.com/?p=34 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.

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