This is a static archive of the old Zorin Forum.

The information below may be outdated. Visit the new Zorin Forum here ›

If you have registered on the old forum, you will need to create an account on the new forum.

Old Zorin Forum archive → Help and Support

trouble with file share

Nanny Puddles

Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:02:28 am

I am having trouble with file share over the network. I have opened/shared the files on the main PC and I can see them from all other computers in the network but when I try to open the file Zorin asks me for a password. I have entered the password that should be for that PC but it is a no go. If I have shared the file why is it asking me for a password, I never made it password protected? What am I doing wrong? Also, if I leave main PC running XP it works flawlessly but my objective is to eliminate XP

Thanking you in advance,
Nan

P.S. Sorry for being a Windoze geek

Wolfman

Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:28:27 am

Hi Nancy,

I am not an expert in this field but are you running your system as "Admin" or normal user, if you are normal user, you need to assign sharing to that user, take a look here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/66718/ho ... and-groups

and make any access changes by adding the user groups accordingly!.

What type of "File Share" are you doing?, Samba?:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba