[Samba] [LONG] Can't see the XP shares in my linux samba acting as aPDC

Carlos Sobrinho epilog at netvisao.pt
Tue Feb 4 04:01:18 GMT 2003


On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:41, Daniel Armbrust wrote:
> Do you want anonymous access, or username/password access to the XP
> machines?

I just want access, anonymous or not but with username/password would be 
better

> If you want username/password access to the machines, have you checked
> to make sure you are using encrypted passwords on the samba server?

I am... at least I think so, encrypt passwords = yes is the default so...

>
> If you are using anonymous shares, have you been able to access one XP
> machine from the other anonymously (meaning, you use an account on one
> machine that doesn't exist on the other, and still access the shared
> files) - If this doesn't work, you need to figure XP first, as it is
> your problem, not samba.

The other guys are sleeping so I'll try that tomorrow and post here...

> Personally, I never muck around with all these config files... Install
> webmin (www.webmin.com) on the machine, and then have a decent GUI to do
> the work for you.  It has a nice configuration module for samba.
>
> I don't know all the steps offhand for enabling anonymous access in XP..
> (I'm not even sure which ones are required, and which ones aren't, but I
> have see a lot of different things that could disable anonymous access.

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