W98-compatible sharing

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Hi!

The problem is that W98 doesn't ask user for username when connecting to
SMB-share. This is not a problem when sharing between W98-computers, since
those only require password for connecting - username is not taken into
account.

Problems start when connecting to NT/Samba-servers, which only seem to
support two options:
- username and password
- no username, no password (guest)

I have read lots of manuals, even bought a book about configuring Samba,
but there is no mention about third option:
- no username, but password (actually I think that W98 supplies random
username instead of nothing)

I'm using share-level security (many users, shared resources, no sense in
using user-level security).

So, does Samba support that third option (sharing something with password
only, without username) and if it does, how to enable it?

It is absolutely impossible to make changes on client-side (W98) - way too
many boxes for that.

Thanks for assistance.

- Tronic -