Connecting to Linux box from Mac

[Cave Man]

Really struggling with this. I have a linux box (Ubuntu 20) and cannot reach it. I enter:

smb://its.computer.name

From Finder > Go > Connect to Server, I get prompted for my user name and password, which I am certain are correct because I can reach it via ssh from the Terminal app. Yet, when I enter the username and password, the login box shakes like I've entered the wrong credentials. Is there an easy way to mount the linux drives on my Mac?

 

[GrumpyCoder]

From Finder > Go > Connect to Server, I get prompted for my user name and password, which I am certain are correct because I can reach it via ssh from the Terminal app.

Samba shares and Linux users don't necessarily have the same passwords. That is only the case when you enable password synchronization.

 

[Cave Man]

Thanks for the info. Is there an easy way to connect from my Mac to the Linunx computer?

 

[GrumpyCoder]

You're connecting the right way, the box shaking means you've entered the wrong username and/or password. So either you need to activate password synchronization in the smb.conf file or you need to create a unix user (you already have one as it seems) and then set the password for that user (again!) with smbpasswd instead of passwd. Once you've done that, make sure the user is added as a valid user to the smb.conf file. Otherwise, your user will not have access to the share, even if the login via ssh works.