[OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

[Dylan Distasio]

Harry-

I'm not an expert here, but I have successfully shared my OI home server
shares with my Windows 7 PC.  In addition to set sharesmb=on which it
sounds like you have already done, you will also need to do:

sudo smbpasswd yourwindowsusername

It will prompt you to set a password for samba.  I keep my OI username and
password the same as my windows 7 username/password to keep things simple.

You should also make your username the owner of the share directories with
chown.

My guess is the only thing you're missing here is the smbpasswd set up
though.

Let me know if that helps.

-Dylan


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Maybe someone can offer a brief outline of how one is to access shares
> on an OI machine from windows 7 based hosts?
>
> The share has sharesmb on and named but I'm not able to access it from
> windows 7.  Entering the username and passwd of shares owner into the
> dialog offered by windows 7 file explorer just fails with no helpful
> comments.
>    zfs get sharesmb p1/projects/reader
>   NAME                PROPERTY  VALUE         SOURCE
>   p1/projects/reader  sharesmb  name=preader  local
>
> Nothing at all in the smb server log that is helpful. The last entries
> there are from OS start up several days ago:
>  /var/svc/log/network-smb-server:default.log
>
> Permissions on the directory (reader) I'm trying to access:
> drwxr-sr-x 16 reader nfsu 17 2013-09-21 22:43 reader
>
> None of the other properties (besides sharesmb) as revealed by `get
> all' appear to have any bearing on remote access.
>
> There is no chance at all that I'm just entering the uid passwd wrong.
> They are simple and I use them everyday.
>
>
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