Samba Troubles With My Mac – Password Never Accepted

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I've been tinkering with my router and have flashed it to use DD-WRT (a Linux distro that can provide me with some extra functionality). This in turn has allowed me to create a Samba server to share the USB drive connected to my router.

It appears to be working fine and I can connect to it, modify files etc. from my Windows 7 box. But I'm having trouble connecting from my MacBook (running Snow Leopard). What I'm doing is:

  1. Switching to Finder
  2. Hitting Command + K to bring up the "Connect To Server" dialog
  3. From here I try to connect to "smb://share@192.168.1.1/public". 192.168.1.1 being the router, share being the username and public the folder I wish to access.
  4. This then provides me with a username & password box, with share populated in the username field. I enter the password for the share account but it tells me it's invalid. I've also tried different username/passwords just incase and using guest access. All no good.

Does anyone have any ideas on what else I can try? I'm definitely getting the right username & password combination.

Cheers for any help
Lee

Best Answer

I finally found the answer on the DD-WRT forums and it's annoyingly simple but I would never have guessed it in a million years.

The username has to be entered in UPPER CASE. So while smb://share@192.168.1.1/public didn't work, smb://SHARE@192.168.1.1/public did!

Just wish I hadn't spent a day trying to get find that out!

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