To reemphasize what hhcv said: I also needed to do
sudo adduser SomeNewUserName
(and give this new user a password)
before I could successfully run
sudo smbpasswd -a SomeNewUserName
The first creates a UNIX user, the second creates an SMB user. I don't know if the two passwords need to be the same, but I made them the same just in case.
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1) create unix user (e.g. wsuser)
2) sudo apt-get install samba smbfs
3) sudo smbpasswd -a wsuser
4) sudo gedit /etc/samba/smbusers
#add this line
wsuser = "wsuser"
5) sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
# add two lines after "####### Authentication #######"
security = user
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
# Uncomment below three lines
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = yes
# add line
writable = yes
access windows shared directory from Linux samba
sudo mkdir /mnt/l-sjn-xxx.corp.yyy.com
sudo smbmount //l-sjn-xxx.corp.yyy.com/public_share /mnt/l-sjn-xxx.corp.yyy.com -o user=xxx,gid=users
