Unable to disable SMB file sharing: Incorrect password error

Sander,

I am a little rusty on my terminal commands could you post a step by step list of the commands you used to accomplish your fix?

Thanks

I found a way to accomplish this with a gui interface using plistedit pro. I had to change some permissions to allow access to the <user>.plist file SanderFromH points out all done from the finder gui and the get info context menu option and copied the file to my Home directory. Once I had the file there I just loaded it into Plistedit pro. You can change the format from binary to xml so you can edit the file directly in the lower editing window. You can also use the array/string entries in the Key/Class/Value outline window on top. Before saving the file you have to change the format back to binary then just save it and copy the newly edited file back to the directory SanderFromH points out in his post and then I changed the permissions back and everything in sharing worked as it did before the Lion Upgrade.🙂

Thanks SanderFromH. Your solution worked for me too. Thanks again

Wow, glad I found this thread! Worked like a charm!

- Jon

Do you thin i can use Directory Utility to modify these strings? It simplifies more all the things.

I can confirm that the Directory Utility is working like a charm for switching the lines. It's the easies way. Save after the editing and voila, the SMB is working again!!

svkrzn wrote:

Do you thin i can use Directory Utility to modify these strings? It simplifies more all the things.

I agree on that, the Directory Utility is probaly the safest way to make the edits.

Just used to the command line interface from work where it is all AIX.

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http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/

To correct jmcgeejr:

The post from SanderFromH does indeed help in the scenario you site, which is also my scenario.

I followed Sander's procedure and afterwards was able to disable all file sharing, including SMB (including being able finally to uncheck beside my acount name under SMB and have that stick!).

Then I rebooted and re-enabled file sharing (including SMB for my account), and then could finally access my new iMac from Windows (via IP address).

I will add details on the plutil commands you need to use in Sander's procedure:

e.g. for <user> whose name is "john":

1. make a backup copy:
   sudo cp /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/john.plist ~/john.plist.orig
2. copy out a version to edit:
   sudo cp /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/john.plist ~/john.plist
3. convert to editable format:sudo plutil -convert xml1 ~/john.plist
4. edit the plist file as Sander's describes; I used vim from a console:sudo vim ~/john.plist
5. convert the edited file back to binary format:
   sudo plutil -convert binary1 ~/john.plist
6. copy back the updated file to the original location, overwriting the original file:
   sudo cp ~/john.plist /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/john.plist

-Colin

Instead of writing all these lines, why don't you just use Directory Utility ?

SanderFromH's answer doesn't work for me, when I want to turn on SMB file sharing. My form of ugrade from SL to Lion was to do a clean install and to copy my home folder over, which doesn't belong to an adminstrative account. However the account my home folder belongs to is the one for which I would like to enable SMB sharing.

As a matter of fact, the said lines were already in the order that SanderFromH had to put them in.

for goodness sakes, what a hassle!! grrrr... bad, bad apple..

hi everyone,

so relieving to find a post that describes my exact situation! i feel like i'm really close to being able to make use of sander's (very helpful) suggestion, but i don't know how to find the plist file for my user account. how might i go about locating that file using command line? more specific instructions would be seriously helpful!

also, i tried the directory utility approach, thinking that might be a better option for me, but when i clicked into the directory utility, i saw only two tabs at the top of the screen: services and search policy. i didn't see the third tab that's in svkrzn's screenshot, which appears to be "directory editor". how can i gain access to that third tab? as an example, here's what i'm seeing:

any help would be very, very much appreciated. this has been bugging me for months, and i'm too close to give up now! 🙂

thx, team,

caroline

@cobaline, are you logged in as administrator? It's the only thing i could ask, i actually have no idea about why are you missing that button.

Solved now with the latest Lion update released today 😀 Finally Apple fixed it