[Samba Authentication] Set up a Samba share for Ubuntu and XP to access

[Adam Conrad]

Chris Neary wrote:
> 
> I've tried different combinations of username - WORKGROUP\chris,
> chris at WORKGROUP and the like, but nothing seems to get through. Gnome seems
> intent on using MSHOME as the workgroup/domain, but my smb.conf shows the
> workgroup is WORKGROUP. Or rather, workgroup. Is it case sensitive?

"sudo smbpasswd -a chris"

... Adam

PS: Yes, I know this is less than intuitive, it's on the table to be
guified a bit for edgy.