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I want to access a folder on my new Ubuntu 12.10 box from any machine on my network without the need to provide credentials.

My machine name is Ubuntu1

I have a 2TB disk that formatted NTFS that has media on it

The mount point is mount1

I have numerous folders on the disk and I want to share each of them individually

I have enabled folder1 and folder2 for sharing

I have enabled shared access, Allow others to create and delete files in this folder and guest access is allowed.

The folder icon now has arrows so I assume all is good.

From windows I can see under network

Ubuntu1>folder1 Ubuntu1>folder2

When I click to open the folder from windows I get the error "You cannot access \Ubuntu1\folder1

You do not have permission to access \Ubuntu1\folder1

I have them both on the same workgroup.

Your assistance would be appreciated

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please read this one wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently – user128296 Dec 17 '12 at 10:15

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As falstaff explained, you need to allow guest from your Ubuntu1 machine or create credentials.

I suggest you to have a look at this guide.

I used it to fix access from both sides (linux/windows clients) to access other SMB shares.

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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Eliah Kagan Dec 19 '12 at 6:28
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Hi the answers already here are good and correct but they do not show that there is a very easy way to fix this using the Ubuntu GUI way.

Right click on your folder you want to share got to the sharing properties and choose,

Allow others to create and delete files in this folder

and

Guest Access (for people without a user account)

as this image shows.

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or you can do as Falstaff has correctly said to create an account on Windows with the same user name and pass, or vice versa, create a unix account with the same user pass.

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Sorry I am Lynx newbie and am not real comfortable with the terminal advice given I can't easily translate from the example to my system. – Ron Dec 18 '12 at 11:25
This is exactly how I changed permissions. I rebooted and have found these errors in log files [2012/12/17 20:22:04.543567, 0] smbd/service.c:1055(make_connection_snum) canonicalize_connect_path failed for service Music, path /media/ron/wd2tb_bottom/Music – Ron Dec 18 '12 at 11:37
Other errors[2012/12/17 20:23:28.523873, 0] smbd/service.c:1055(make_connection_snum) canonicalize_connect_path failed for service AudioBooks, path /media/ron/wd2tb_bottom/AudioBooks [2012/12/17 20:28:16.968188, 0] param/loadparm.c:9114(process_usershare_file) process_usershare_file: stat of /var/lib/samba/usershares/audiobooks failed. Permission denied – Ron Dec 18 '12 at 11:41
[2012/12/17 20:46:59.237641, 0] param/loadparm.c:6498(canonicalize_servicename) canonicalize_servicename: NULL source name! – Ron Dec 18 '12 at 11:41
2012/12/17 22:41:21.644314, 0] lib/util.c:1117(smb_panic) PANIC (pid 3056): internal error [2012/12/17 22:41:21.757819, 0] lib/util.c:1221(log_stack_trace) BACKTRACE: 23 stack frames: #0 smbd(log_stack_trace+0x29) [0xb718e8a9] #1 smbd(smb_panic+0x28) [0xb718e9a8] #2 smbd(+0x42daf2) [0xb717daf2] #3 [0xb6d2d400] .... smb_panic(): action returned status 0 [2012/12/17 22:41:22.052098, 0] lib/fault.c:372(dump_core) dumping core in /var/log/samba/cores/smbd – Ron Dec 18 '12 at 11:43
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Samba needs you to authenticate as a valid user.

You either have to enable guest access or create a user with the same username/password combination on Windows...

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