Hello,

I have a pogoplug with 2 hard drives connected to it. To be able to share those with my windows 7 PC, I have installed samba on the pogoplug and turned them into smb-shares.

This process went fine and I could access, read and write on my shares.

To have a sense of security (and so I could learn also) I tried to put a password on those shares. I have read a lot, and followed this guide to get the job done, adapted on my own version of linux on the pogoplug. I called the group "samba" and the user "thomas". See below for the copy-paste of the guide

As I have 2 drives, I tried this config on one of them so I could compare with the other one.

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Install samba on the server

# yum install samba

Create the group that all the samba users will be contained in, for example 'samba'

# groupadd samba

Create samba users and add it to the above group, which is in this example is 'samba'. Below is the example to create a user named 'user1' and add it to group 'samba'. Set the password for user1

# useradd user1 -g samba
# passwd user1

Create the directory to be shared. In this example, i will use /home/shared. Change the ownership to root and group ownership to the 'samba' group. Change permission so that only user and group can read write and execute

# mkdir /home/shared
# chown -R root.samba /home/shared
# chmod -R 775 /home/shared

Below is a simple setting of samba

[global] workgroup = samba
server string = Samba Server
security = user [shared_folder]
comment = Sharing place
path = /home/shared
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = @samba
create mask = 0755
force create mode = 0755
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
What the above setting does basically is to setup /home/shared as samba shared directory but can only be accessed by user from group samba

Add user/users to samba

# smbpasswd -a user1

Start smb service, restart if it has already been started

# /etc/init.d/smb start
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See the relevant part in my smb.conf after the changes. I tried the changes on [Helios]. Daedalus remains accessible after the samba restart.

[Helios]
comment = HD1 Network share
path = /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sda1/
available = yes
public = no
writable = yes
printable = no
create mask = 0755
write list = thomas
force create mode = 0755
browseable = yes
directory mask = 0775
force directory mode = 0775
security = user

[Daedalus]
comment = HD2 Network share
path = /tmp/.cemnt/mnt_sdb1/
available = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes
guest only = yes
create mask = 0777
browseable = yes

When trying to access the Helios share, windows7 asks me for a password.
I am sure I added thomas as a linux user via "adduser" and as a samba user via "smbpasswd".


Error in windows7 is "The specified network password is not correct. Did I forget to add something or did I make a mistake somewhere?

Thanks in advance!

a look at /var/log on the server end might throw a bit more light on the issue. /var/log/messages is a useful resource and there should be some logs specific to your windows device under /var/log/samba - I had to play around with a raspberry pi at the weekend and there was a log.raspbmc.

Good luck

Paste the result of:

Watch the logs:

, or however you have it setup:

Test the samba share from the pogoplug

Connect to a SMB share with

Also with the
comment #security out in this share your in your smb.conf

You already have it specified at the top of smb.conf

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Hello

Thanks for the replies. I got it working since this evening. Thanks for your advice! @gdizzle: i adapted my smb.conf.

GTCG