Password: Samba will not accept admin password

[GranPaSmurf]

When I try to open Samba, it prompts of admin pw. When I enter my password, it does not accept it.
So yesterday, I changed my password and now Samba will not accept either new or old PW.

1. I would like to revert to my original PW.
2. I would like to open Samba

Ultimately I am trying to map to a network drive.

[Buddlespit]

I'm curious, could you post your smb.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf)? It sounds like you're pointing to pam/mysql/apache2/some other program.

[GranPaSmurf]

Buddlespit,
thanks for your response. I managed to get the network drive mapped and it is working fine.

[Buddlespit]

If you could be so kind as to share what happened or what you did to fix it, you could be helping someone else in the future.

[GranPaSmurf]

I'm not trying to be flip, but I honestly don't remember. That was Tuesday, this is Thursday. It seems my distro did not have some needed packages. According to my Muon History tab, I installed smb4k a bit after I posted the question.
I searched other forums and looked at possible answers, so...
Sorry, I am, by habit, pretty good at posting solutions after I pose a question, but this time my focus was on a task.
I promise to do better.

[GranPaSmurf]

I think, however, I still have the same lack of understanding of user & su and such. My user and password is the only accounts I have on this machine.
Just this morning I was trying to upgrade my LibreOffice to the newest version. They advised a full uninstall of earlier versions, so I went to Muon Software Center and found LibreOffice, then selected 'uninstall.' Muon asked for my password but didn't accept it.
So I guess I don't understand why not. That is essentially the same question as the first post.
If Muon asks for SU but my user account is not ROOT, then I still have to go to Konsole and do the deed by command prompt.

[Buddlespit]

Do you have adm and sudo listed in your secondary groups?

[GranPaSmurf]

Buddlespit, (or others if you are willing)
are you still available to help with this again?
I have installed/re-installed 13.10 I think I understand Linux/Kubuntu a bit more now. Thanks to the patient persistence of ohunluvr sticking with me for over a 100 posts!
I still have the original issue of not being able to create a Samba share. I get to the dialogue but can't get past. I think I don't understand the credentials Samba is asking for.
Ultimately I want to save files from my Kubuntu system to a networked drive I use and connect to in 2 Win 7 computers.

[oshunluvr]

Is the networked samba drive on a window machine, linux machine, or some other connection?

When you attempt to connect to a samba server, the username and password requested are those of the server, not the client.

[GranPaSmurf]

got it, did it...and it worked! Thanks oshunluvr!

[oshunluvr]

Wow, that was easy!