[Samba] Windows XP connects as guest instead of letting me choose the username / password

[Ganeshram Iyer]

I did have this problem. It has something to do with XP. at this time
i was unable to find the required MS documents but this is what I use
to circumvent the problem:

net use d: \\computername\sharename /user:usrname /password:urpasswd
/persistent:yes

i think this is the right syntax. if it is wrong please someone on the
group correct it for me.

i think you can put a modification of this in your
netlogon.bat/logon.bat so that it picks up each time you log on.
Ganesh


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100, Sebastian <space_cadet at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me mad,
> I'll ask anyway.
> 
> What I want:
> 
> In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select one
> of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective
> Samba-username & -password to access the share.
> 
> What I get:
> 
> I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out, asking me for a
> password.
> 
> My question:
> 
> WHY does XP always assume I want to access the share as "Guest"? Can I
> disable this behavior somehow?
> 
> What I tried:
> 
> - set requiresignorseal = 0 in XP registry
> - set security to SHARE in smb.conf
> - disabled XP simple file sharing
> - registered the username/password combo with samba using smbpasswd
> 
> Has anyone had this problem before? Any suggestions? Thank you very much,
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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