I have a computer that dual boots Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 7 Professional. There are a number of files on an ntfs drive that I am trying to share from Ubuntu to a laptop (Windows 7) with samba. Ideally the share will not require a password.
The issue I am having is that I am prompted for a username and password from the laptop whenever I try to connect to the share. \\ipaddress and \\hostname have the same result. I have tried every conceivable password to no avail. The permissions on the drive I am trying to share are drwxr-xr-x with all the directories and files contained within it the same.
The relevant bits from my smb.conf are below. This is just the latest version; I have tried a myriad of other options I have found by browsing various forums, (guest = ok, guest only = yes etc) but nothing has worked.
Code:
[Global]
user=share
owner only = false
map to guest = bad user
guest account = nobody
security = share
[sharedstuff]
comment = sharedstuff
path = /media/Strax/Storage/sharedstuff
available = yes
browsable = yes
public = yes
writeable = no
I have looked in the various samba log files and there are lots of Can't become connected user! messages, but I have no idea what this means.
The ironic thing is that I can boot into Windows 7 and achieve exactly what I want to in about 5 seconds with no issues at all. I installed Ubuntu because I had heard good things about linux and I was keen to give it a try; in every other respect I am really liking it and would like to continue using it.