W98-compatible sharing

[Christian Barth]

> Hi!
> 
> The problem is that W98 doesn't ask user for username when connecting to
> SMB-share. This is not a problem when sharing between W98-computers, since
> those only require password for connecting - username is not taken into
> account.
> 
> Problems start when connecting to NT/Samba-servers, which only seem to
> support two options:
> - username and password
> - no username, no password (guest)
> 
> I have read lots of manuals, even bought a book about configuring Samba,
> but there is no mention about third option:
> - no username, but password (actually I think that W98 supplies random
> username instead of nothing)
> 
> I'm using share-level security (many users, shared resources, no sense in
> using user-level security).
> 
> So, does Samba support that third option (sharing something with password
> only, without username) and if it does, how to enable it?
To my limited understandig this is what share level security does. As 
samba needs a vailied unix user id samba has a couple of rules to 
find/guess the user name used with share level security as explained 
in "man smb.conf"

If you do not want to have different unix uids, try "force user = 
xyz" in smb.conf. 

Christian

> 
> It is absolutely impossible to make changes on client-side (W98) - way too
> many boxes for that.
> 
> Thanks for assistance.
> 
> - Tronic -
> 
> 
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