new samba user seeks alternative to NT

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 13 Mar 99, "Robert Fowler" <robfowlr at seacoast.com> had questions 
about new samba user seeks alternative to NT:  

> ive got samba up and working as my master browser but
> when i try to go into the shared directory or main folder 
> it comes up with a password screen ..  \\alpha\ipc$
> but my question is , is there a default password for guest 
> or nobody ?  it just keeps rejecting my password .. 

The easiest way to set it up is to give your windoze machine the 
same NetBIOS name (computer name) as the host account on the samba 
box.  Then use that password as your windoze network login password.

If the client is NT, then login to NT with same account info 
(NT4SP3 and above require an open connection for browsing, so 
you'll have to map a share with Net Use from an NT command prompt 
first).  This assumes user-level security on the samba side.

If you name your windoze client differently than your samba host 
account, then you'll need to map the names in the map file (see the 
man page for smb.conf).

Steve


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