Unable to disable SMB file sharing: Incorrect password error

Another page suggested that you simply re-change your password (using System Preferences | Users) which didn't work for me. However, after reading through all these links, and having had toyed with this a few years ago on OS X and Linux, I am pretty sure that all this is rather dependant on the "smbpasswd" command, which I cannot find anywhere on my system!!??

Could it be that's it's all failing simply because that piece of the puzzle is missing?

the smbpasswd tool is probably not there because Lion doesn't use Samba. Apple built their own Windows Services to replace Samba in Lion. This may also explain why the incorrect password error is happening when migrating. Because the SMB sharing is being handled by custom tools, not Samba, the migration utility doesn't translate the smb password information from one to the other properly. If you create a new account in Lion, you can modify it because it was created using the new Windows Services.

The problem is not isolated to only those migrating to Lion. I am a new Mac Mini owner. My Mac was preloaded with Lion and I had the same password issue being discussed here.

Hi, I am going to bump this as I too am still having this problem. I have tried so many things and yet to no avail. I am not in a place where I want to reinstall Lion and then recreate my account. Any one have any updates?

Going to add an update to this, for stuff I have tried, I just made a CCC of my drive, reinstalled LION from scratch and then did migration assistant, this time I didnt choose any of the computer or network settings, still no dice, I even unchecked file sharing before I did the CCC. Meh, hopefully someday apple will acknowledge this and fix it.

I really would like to not have to share EVERYTHING THAT MY MAIN ACCOUNT HAS ACCESS TO to everyone else on my network.

I'm having this problem too. Also getting crashing of Photshop elements since upgrading to Lion.

I might end up going back to Snow Leopard there are just too many problems with Lion it's beyond a joke,

Some of us are stuck with it 😟, I am not willing to do the hack to get SL installed on my 2011 mini.

I found a workaround to the "incorrect password" problem in the smb share:

Create/enable a "root" account (do a search on how, it's pretty simple), login via root and edit your smb settings. Worked for me. Good luck....

Please do tell us what settings you changed to resolve the issue!

To enable root user see this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528

Once root user is enabled, log in as "root", then go to file share settings and adjust your smb settings.

Just a heads up that this doesnt fix the unable to deselect account issue, not sure about the wrong password error. But the one that is from an account migrated from SL to lion with smb sharing enabled is still bugged out and cant be deslected.

I haven't tried the root thing yet, however, I thought I should mention that my account wasn't "checked" before migration (to Lion) because a) admin accounts had access without needing to be enabled in the sharing dialog, and b) I was mapping read-only shares as "Guest" anyhow (at the time). None of this works anymore.

I've found a solution (10.7.1, unable to turn on Samba login for my primary account, using FileVault2);

1. Go to Preferences / Users & Groups
2. Change your password.
3. Disable sharing access for Guest.
4. Create a new Sharing Only account.
5. In Sharing Preferences, enable Samba access for the account you just made.
6. Optional: undo the changes you made in steps 3 and 2.
7. Enable/disable Samba for your account.
8. Optional: remove the new account.

tried it (while skipping the optional undo steps) and number 7 failed for me.

but for a moment you'd given me hope. 🙂