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Does Samba have a default password?

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$ smbpasswd

Old SMB password:

New SMB password:

Retype new SMB password:

Could not connect to machine 127.0.0.1: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

One suggestion was to add the user to samba

smbpasswd -a frank

This brought up list of options, should it tell me user added?

Samba quick start guide use smbadduser name:name but that gave command not found

Did that but when I retry to change password I get same error message.

Browsing around it suggests that this error message is that you did not enter old password, as it is a new install I presumed it to be blank and googling samba default password came up with 1234 as default password, so tried that in the old SMB password... same error.

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answered 3 Years ago serveeel · Accepted Answer

First try to add a user.

useradd -c "User Name" -d /home/user -s /sbin/nologin user

The create a password for that user

smbpasswd -a user

New SMB password:

Retype new SMB password:

and you will get

Added user user.

After that, you have to define shares. Let me know if it works.

*Make sure you replace User Name and user, with the real user

Try run passwd, then sudo smbpasswd