2 servers won't sync browse lists accross network

[Greg Patten]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Greg Patten wrote:
> > 
> > I have `guest account = nobody' and smb says:
> > 
> > SMB Password - pwlen = 24, challenge_done = 1
> > Checking SMB password for user nobody (l=24)
> > get_smbpwd_entry: skipping comment or blank line
> > get_smbpwd_entry: skipping comment or blank line
> > get_smbpwd_entry: skipping comment or blank line
> > Couldn't find user nobody in smb_passwd file.
> > 
> > I can see it there although it doesn't have a password (just the
> > XXXX..)  If I set a password smbd finds it but the login fails.
> > I must be missing something very simple ..
> 
> Having 'XXX's in the password is interpreted as
> 'password is always invalid'. Hmmm. You probably
> need to have this set as 'NO PASSWORD' (check out
> docs/ENCRYPTION.txt for details). After all, you
> don't really care if anyone access a share as
> user nobody as they will only get guest rights.
> 
> Hope this helps,

Jeremy, It helped so much it fixed the problem :)

Many thanks again for all your help,
Greg.