When I try to share a folder using the procedure you described, I get the following error:

‘net usershare’ returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name “Everyone” to a SID. Logon failure.

How do I fix this?

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We’re glad this tutorial helped! 😀

I’ve been trying to share password-protected folders on my Ubuntu (Desktop installed on top of Kubuntu) 11.04 laptop for almost two weeks now. I have not been able to do so, as my Windows 7 Home Premium installed on a desktop machine has invariably and repeatedly given me the message “Login failed: incorrect password” whenever I have tried to open the folders either of those shares represent from Win 7. Allowing Guest access works fine, and I’d be satisfied with it, except that under Guest access, any files created, copied to, or saved in the share invariably have to have their permissions, ownership and group ID changed in Linux. I know this isn’t necessary when a password-protected share has files created, copied to or saved in it, because the file’s umask is set correctly in smb.conf or somewhere else “under the hood” in Linux.

I have also discovered that, unless one mounts one’s own shared folder in Ubuntu Linux, there is absolutely no way of specifying that share’s umask; not to mention, this workaround seems only to apply to files created in shares from logged-in computers running Ubuntu, Debian or some other ‘flavor’ of Linux.

So what we have here is the proverbial ‘dog chasing its own tail.’

The last version of Windows I ran on any of my computers was Windows XP Pro SP3. It’s sad to think that in the last six or seven years, Microsoft, in trying to make up for security flaws and gaffes in the past (of this I have no doubt), have completely ruined what most folks might have been inclined at one time or another to call “their baby.” Samba, to many people I know, is synonymous with “Windows file sharing”; they’re surprised when I tell them it’s maintained by a separate organization having little or nothing to do directly with Microsoft. Now it would be foolish for anyone to make the connection, full stop, between the one and the other.

In short, there is no way to access password-protected folders on Ubuntu machines running SMB/CIFS from any incarnation of Windows 7, because what Windows 7 runs is obviously not “straight Samba.”

But take heart: most ISPs block the highest TCP/UDP ports, by number, by name 139 and 445, and as the lower two or three were intended strictly for LAN use, the whole of honest-to goodness Samba is, while not 100% secure, as close to it as should make no difference for most users.

BZT

Goodday.

This works well to access the files. My problem is write protections.
If I save the file from a Windows 7 or 8 PC to the shared /home/netshared folder it get a read only lock on it.
I am able to fix thus via

sudo chown -R -L -H -v {username} *

But having to to do this each time is annoying, And doing this makes it Read only to the Windows PC and the other Linux PC.
In other words, I can see the files but can`t save over them from another PC.

Any ideas.

Works great! Just remember to refresh the network list on the windows PC to see the new Ubuntu folders

I have tried everything above, Before sharing a file in Ubuntu I could see the machine on the network from another windoes computer. Once the sharing was made (I could never tick the ’Allow others to create and delete files in this folder’ ), the machine no longer appeared in the network…

You know what, Ubuntu really sucks… There is absolutely NOTHING straightforward nor user friendly. just wanted to have a small print server for my office, using a little old machine so I thought this would be perfect. Well it’s not and again I’m disappointed…