windows got me beat

Guido Heumann listguido at web.de
Mon Aug 15 13:09:54 UTC 2005


Inhabitant of Zion schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> i am trying to set up my home network and I am still trying to get the
> bugs out of it.
> 
> I've had to re-install all 3 machines running Ubuntu as I hit a dead
> end with the previous problems I had with not being able to add shared
> folders after upgrading using new repositories.
> 
> I can now see each computer from all the others on the network. I can
> log into any of the Ubuntu machines from the token windows PC. I can
> log into the windows PC from any of the Ubuntu machines.
> 
> What I can't do is log into any Ubuntu machine on the network from
> another Ubuntu machine. They just don't seem to accept the login
> details.
> 
> What on earth is the problem :-(
> 
> Anybody interested in helping me sort this out?

Are you using the same username/password on every machine?
Perhaps try adding the user(s) to the samba password database with 
"smbpasswd -a username" on the ubuntu machines.

HTH,
Guido




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