[Coco] CoCoPi 4 Shared Folder Access

[coco at jechar.ca]

Thanks manual you linked to clear as mud but after half
an hour I tried my best guess.

smbpasswd -L pi

from the CoCoPi linux command line.

which worked.

Charlie

On 2020-06-13 18:33, Ron Klein wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> Jeff is correct in that Samba (Windows file sharing service) is 
> configured
> to use it's own user ID/password database.  I just set the 'pi' user ID 
> to
> have the same password for the OS and Samba.
> 
> You can use the smbpasswd command to change the Samba password for the 
> user
> "pi."
> 
> https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smbpasswd.8.html
> 
> You just need to exit from the CoCo-Pi menu (hit ESC) and you will be
> dropped to the command line (console).
> 
> Type 'menu' when done to restore the CoCo-Pi menu.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 1:10 PM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:
> 
>> The shares are probably done using samba, which should mean that
>> editing the file /etc/samba/smb.conf is how you change the password
>> for the share.
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:44 PM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > I saw a youtube by Stevie Strow about the CoCoPi 4 so I set it up.
>> > It works nicely however even though I have changed the password on
>> > my pi with the passwd command and ssh pi at cocopi.local now uses
>> > the new password, the password for accessing the share1 folder however
>> > is still the default password raspberry.
>> > Why and can it be changed ?
>> >
>> > Charlie
>> >
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