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I'm trying to set up a shared folder so that only a specific user (steve) can access. Steve is the only user on my machine and the share is set up using Steve's account.

The share is set up like

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On my local Ubuntu Desktop 21.04 machine, when I navigate to Other Locations, double click on my local machine's name under Networks, and double click the Test folder, it says Authentication Required.

I click Registered User, type Steve's password in, and it just re-opens the Authentication Required required window as if I wasn't authenticated.

ls -la says the permissions for the folder are:

drwxrwxrwx  1 steve    steve     0 Aug 28 19:02  Test

Have I missed something when setting up the folder share?

Not sure if it makes any difference, but Test is on an external HDD. Also, I presume it uses Samba but I'm not sure.

When trying to access the shared network folder using a Windows machine, I also get the authentication window. I type in Steve's details, and it says authentication failed.

Dan
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Turns out there was quite a lot I hadn't done. It wasn't as simple as installing Samba and setting up the folder share by right clicking on it.

I also had to:

  1. Create a samba user account for Steve: sudo smbpasswd -a steve

  2. Configure the smb.conf to set the security mode to user. Ran sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf and added security = user under workgroup = WORKGROUP under the [global] section.

  3. Added a section to the smb.conf defining the information about the folder I wanted to share.

    [Test]
    path = "/media/steve/external drive/Test"
    read only = no
    writeable = yes
    browseable = yes
    valid users = steve
    create mask = 0777
    directory mask = 0777

  4. Restarted the smb service by running sudo service smbd restart

I can now access the shared folder both locally through the Networks section and on other machines.

For each folder you want to share, you need to define a section like the 3rd point shows and then restart the service like the 4th point shows

Dan
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