{"id":3980,"date":"2011-11-15T02:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T10:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2011-11-15T02:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T10:08:25","slug":"getting-around-incorrect-password-when-trying-to-enable-smb-on-mac-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/getting-around-incorrect-password-when-trying-to-enable-smb-on-mac-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Around Incorrect Password When Trying to Enable SMB on Mac OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"

So with my files halfway transferred, I began to setup file sharing on Mac OSX Lion. Things were pretty straight forward. Go to Sharing; enable File Sharing; add the directory I want to share; modify the access rights. To enable SAMBA, I just had to go into Options… and check Share files and folders using SMB (Windows)<\/em> and select the Windows account(s) I want to have access to the file shares.<\/p>\n

My HTPC uses a different login and I wanted to add a sharing only account to the access list. Simple enough. Click the + button and set the username and password and also enable it for SMB. But then I kept getting this error:<\/p>\n

\"Mac<\/p>\n

To enable file sharing using SMB for “login”, enter the password password for that account.<\/p>\n

Incorrect password<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve double checked to make sure I had the right password and even tried deleting the account and creating a new one, but couldn’t understand why it kept thinking my password was incorrect. One thought was maybe sharing only accounts couldn’t have SMB access? So I started searching for a solution online. A couple people seem to have hit into this issue, but no one seemed to have found a solution.<\/p>\n

Solution<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

To fix this, instead of creating the new account inside the Sharing window, go to Users & Groups and create a new Sharing Only account there. It requires the same fields, but when you try to enable SMB for that account, you won’t get the “incorrect password” message anymore.<\/p>\n

Hope this helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So with my files halfway transferred, I began to setup file sharing on Mac OSX Lion. Things were pretty straight forward. Go to Sharing; enable File Sharing; add the directory I want to share; modify the access rights. To enable SAMBA, I just had to go into Options… and check Share files and folders using … <\/p>\n

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