SMB sharing is not working for me
Two machines, one Leopard and the other XP Pro.
Both firewalls off just to be sure.
Both machines can ping each other by IP.
Both user names are the same. (Heck, both passwords are the same too.)
I have a shared folder on the Mac with SMB enabled.
When I try to access the SMB share from the XP machine, it prompts me for a user name and password. It rejects everything I try.
As an aside, on the Mac when I click 'Advanced' for sharing and put a checkbox next to the user name that I want to give access too, which is also the user name I am logged in to, it prompts me for that account's password. It rejects the account password as invalid.
I'm at a total loss. I have no idea what to try.
Accessing SMB shares on Windows servers from the Mac is easy.
-Travis
I'd try a couple of things:
1. Take a look in /var/log/samba/ at the file log.smbd. This is the main Samba log, which is the server that is providing SMB file sharing for your Mac. There might be clues in there. Also, you can increase the debugging level of the running smbd (to get more detailed troubleshooting information) using the smbcontrol command. Something like this will boost the debugging up:
sudo smbcontrol smbd debug 5
Then, try another connection attempt. You should see much more verbose output in the log.
2. Create a new test user and enable file sharing for SMB. Any luck connecting as this new user?
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