multiple connections as different identities

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Dec 4 04:26:20 GMT 2003


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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, David Bear wrote:

> it seems that windows XP wants to connect to samba using multiple
> identities.

All variants of windows do this.  The spooler is particularly 
bad about it.

> The issue I have is that on shares that do not permit anonymous
> connections, occasionally users are denied access.  I'm guessing
> becuase XP told samba that it was 'nobody', ie anonymous.
> 
> Anyone know how to force XP to send the currently logged on users
> credentials rather that 'guest'???

The problem is that different sessions swap the tid between them.
It's what the client is doing.

> btw, this is samba 2.X with the latest security rollup. and
> 
> security = server
> password server = domaincontroller

security = domain is much better.  Have you tried swapping ?



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