Hi guys, please be patient with me, i know this is a dumb question lol.

Ok situation is this


A long time ago I set up samba in Linux

I created a share that everyone can access - which still works

Inside that share, i created a folder called Secure


drwxrwx--- 17 root root 4096 Feb 3 16:08 secure

I then added a user to the root group and gave the user a password

I then was able to log into the secured share on Windows using the username and password I had set up.

The computer I was accessing the share on has died on me, and when I try to access the share on another computer that can see the server, I access that secured folder, but instead of being able to type in a username and password, it just says access denied.

Any ideas please?

restart samba service and computer accessing the shared secured folder
and see if its work.

does the username and the password on the PC have the be the same of what the username and password is for the share?

how do I find out what users have access to that share?