R: Guest user - different password

[Stefano Colombo]

It works
Thanks

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Astral Projection [mailto:astral604 at hotmail.com]
Inviato: lunedì 3 gennaio 2000 13.03
A: s_colombo at iol.it
Oggetto: Re: Guest user - different password





>From: "Stefano Colombo" <s_colombo at iol.it>
>Reply-To: s_colombo at iol.it
>To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
>Subject: Guest user - different password
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:24:44 +1100
>
>
>Hi,
>	I don't know if this is possible or already done before , but asking
>does cost nothing :-)
>
>	I did setup a guest user which must have no password , so I manually
>edited the apfs's password field in the private/smbpasswd file and set it
>to
>NO PASSWORDXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
>	Now I mapped several windows users to the apsf guest user in the
>username.map file
>	These windows users , which are both 9x and NT , however have each a
>different "windows" password so it seems they are not able to be
>authenticated by the samba server .
>	Infact in the log files I can see the user apsf is rejected, because
>the password didn't match.
>
>	I thought that setting the user apsf without password would have
>been enough , I remembered to add the null passwords = yes in the smb.conf
>.
>
>	It seems that something is wrong with the null password
>configuration
>	Can anyone help
>	TIA
>	happy new year to all
>
>Stefano Colombo  ( scolombo at cdmtc.it )
>System / Network Engineer
>CDM Tecnoconsulting SPA
>v. M.L.King 38/2
>40132, Bologna
>Italy
>tel      : +39 051 4132611
>fax     : +39 051 4132627
>WEB : http://www.cdmtc.it
>
>
>
><< winmail.dat >>

I had that problem since i added the "map to guest" set to "bad password"
wich means "if th user does not exists and/or the password is bad then log
him as guest".
try it... ;)
and happy new year.


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