MAC unable to connect to pcbsd

[madlyhs]

Hi,

I'm new to PC-BSD and i just installed PCBSD 9 ; from Samba i can see and connect to all my machines (Mac and PC) however, if i try to connect to PCBSD from my Mac or PC i cant seems to be able to do that !

Authentication is required and after i enter the user name and password which i know that they are correct i get invalid user name/password error message !

I don't understand if i can connect from my PCBSD to any machine on my network why cant i connect to PCBSD machine ?

TIA

[kmoore134]

Its probably an issue with the samba config. You may need to edit
/usr/local/etc/smb.conf to make this work. On my system here, I have
setup share-level security, and shared only a few directories.

[madlyhs]

Thank you for the info

[sqlpython]

I usually advocate removing the security during the config process. The reason being is you are then permitted to concentrate on the working of the connections and not wonder if Security is disallowing the connection.
So to that end I will in the file /usr/local/etc/smb.conf set the line

security = share

Once your configuration of the smb.conf is completed and working You can choose another security level
such as

security = user
security = domain
security = server

and others

I have a Quick Samba config How to that I have set up and use. It is basic easy to understand and I wil post it in Tips/Tricks to give you a quick start.