[Samba] smbclient thinks passwordless account is anonymous

[Joel Hammer]

Hmmm...

I don't know much about windows. The problem likely lies in the windows
server, methinks. smbclient is taking the user personality provided by the
windows server, no?

I lost your first post. But, does your version of windows (98, for example),
have much of a concept of "user".

Joel

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 10:07:22PM -0800, John Tyner wrote:
> I want to connect _from_ the linux box _to_ the windows box. I think the 
> problem is in smbclient, not samba itself.
> 
> John
> 
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:46:12PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Try man smb.conf
> > 
> > It explains how to set up the samba server to assign a user name to a logon with
> > no password.
> > eg.
> > 
> > [global]
> > 	guest account = ftp
> > 
> > [cdrom1]
> > 	comment = CDROM1
> > 	path = /mnt/cdrom1
> > 	guest ok = yes
> > 
> > guest account can be any valid user, like root. This gets rid of all those
> > pesky permissions problems.
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > 
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