W98-compatible sharing
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Tue Dec 18 06:47:06 GMT 2001
> 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?
To my limited understandig this is what share level security does. As
samba needs a vailied unix user id samba has a couple of rules to
find/guess the user name used with share level security as explained
in "man smb.conf"
If you do not want to have different unix uids, try "force user =
xyz" in smb.conf.
Christian
>
> It is absolutely impossible to make changes on client-side (W98) - way too
> many boxes for that.
>
> Thanks for assistance.
>
> - Tronic -
>
>
>
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