[Samba] WIndows 98 asking for a password

[Trey Nolen]

You have security=user. If you don't want passwords, set security=share.

Trey Nolen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Aggarwal" <neil at JAMMConsulting.com>
To: "Samba mailing list" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: [Samba] WIndows 98 asking for a password


> Hello:
> 
> I have a brother HL-1440 laser printer set-up and working fine on my
> RedHat 7.3 Linux box.  The printer queue is named brotherLaser.
> 
> I added a samba share for the printer with these options
> in my smb.conf file:
> [brotherLaser]
>         path = /var/spool/lpd/brotherLaser
>         writable = yes
>         comment = Brother Laser Printer
>         printable = yes
>         public = yes
> 
> I then went to a windows 98 machine and tried to set-up a
> network printer with the path \\192.168.1.1\brotherLaser
> 
> I installed the driver from the cdrom that came with the printer
> and everything seemed to work just fine.
> 
> But, when I look at the printer, it says that it is offline.
> When I try to connect to it, it asks me for a password.
> No matter what I enter, it says the password is not correct.
> 
> I have samba set to allow for null passwords and the printer
> is public, so anyone on the network should be able to
> print to it without a password, correct?
> 
> Here is my global tag:
> [global]
>         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         pam password change = yes
>         printing = lprng
>         dns proxy = no
>         null passwords = yes
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         obey pam restrictions = yes
>         debug level = 10
>         passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>         security = user
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         server string = Samba Server
>         workgroup = MYGROUP
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         load printers = yes
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neil.
> 
> --
> Neil Aggarwal
> JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
> Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
> 
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