- Installed Ubuntu 16.04.1. Let's say the name of the Ubuntu is
amc
- I logged into Ubuntu. Let's say the account name is
walking
and the password isdead
. - On Nautilus, I selected a directory in my home folder, and chose Local Network Share.
- It asked me if I wanted to install required things, and I clicked OK.
- In the share option of the directory, I checked "Share this folder" and "Allow others...", but did not check on "Guest...".
- I did not do any terminal
vi
config things, as the GUI seemed to work. - I restarted Ubuntu.
From Windows, I opened File Explorer and typed \\amc
. It showed the shared directory. When I double-clicked it, File Explorer showed a network credential pop-up. I typed walking
in the user name, and dead
in the password, and clicked OK. But it showed "Access is denied". Then I typed amc\walking
in the user name instead, but it still showed "Access is denied".
What user name and password am I supposed to type? Isn't working on GUI enough? Should I also do some manual config editing?
---Added---
The linked post and answers are 6-year old, and did not work.
sudo restart smbd
failed with connection refused
or something. The gksudo
showed administrator password dialogue, to which I typed my user account password, and it failed saying the password was wrong.
Another answer proposed system-config-samba
. I installed it but it failed to start saying something like /etc/libuser.conf no such file
.
--purge
and reinstall it with--reinstall
. Now samba cannot be even installed withErrors were encountered while processing : samba
. This was kind of my experiment of "Is Ubuntu's UI mature enough so that I can do this one simple task without furiously searching Google and typing and editing complicated config files?" And it failed.