[OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Thu Sep 26 00:07:13 UTC 2013


Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I'm not running samba, so don;t even have that command.   Far as I
knew last time I ran OI... more than a year now, one didn't have to
run samba for smb protocol to work.

Is that no longer the case?




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