Samba: Access trouble from Windows

Friday, March 17, 2017

I am trying to access an NTFS (ntfs-3g) share from a Windows machine through the Samba 3 on Debian.

I am getting this error on Windows when I try net use command:

System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

, which I am sure is not due to a bad password because that would be

System error 86 has occurred.

The specified network password is not correct.

I have my /etc/samba/smb.conf setup like this under global:

   security = user

and for the share:

  valid users = @users
  force group = users
  create mask = 0777
  directory mask = 0777
  writeable = Yes
  browseable = yes
  guest ok = no

Output of "$ sudo testparm -s" command includes under the specific share:

valid users = %S
force group = users
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700

Any clues/hints for what could be going wrong? Please let me know if more information is needed to solve the problem. Thanks.

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