[Samba] samba 2.2.8a, XP pro workgroup question.

[KD7NWG]

Chris,
Thank you!  The 'map to guest' worked great along with the setting to
enable password encryption.  I can now use my laptop from another domain
on my workgroup samba share.

Thanks again!
~Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: McKeever Chris [mailto:tech-mail at prupref.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:05 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org; KD7NWG; @prupref.com
Subject: Re: [Samba] samba 2.2.8a, XP pro workgroup question.



On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:56 , KD7NWG <kd7nwg at whitepineclub.com> sent:

>Gang,
>This is my first post here so if I screw up please let me know.
>
>I run samba 2.2.8a on Solaris at home (UltraUX).
>I have several XP pro and win98 clients on this same network
>(192.168.1.x).
>
>I feel that my primary problem is when I try to access the share it is
>populating the username field 'Guest' and asking me for a password when
>I want this share to be completely open regardless of workgroup or
>domain name.
>

I have had this problem a bunch of times.  I _believe_ that it is caused
by samba using the username/password and then failing (guest access 
is only when there is no usernmae/password..does that make
sense?)..There is a setting which allows you to fallback to a username
if the 
original username/password pair fails (in the docs this is said 'to
cause confusion for sys-admins')  I believe if you poke around with 'map
to 
guest' and 'bad password'  you should be able to come up with a
solution.


>>This may or may not be possible, but I'd sure like to know if I can
make
>this share work, without changing my laptops workgroup/domain name.
>  


>>Here is my smb.conf;
>---------------
># This is /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf
>
>[global]
>   netbios name = UltraUX
>   workgroup = Galvinonline
>   log level = 2
>   log file = /var/adm/log/sambalog
>   security = share
>   wins support = yes
>   hosts allow = 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 127.0.0.1 EXCEPT 192.168.1.1
>   hosts deny = ALL
>
>[share]
>   path = /share/
>   browseable = yes
>   guest ok = yes
>   public = yes
>   read only = no
>
>----------------
>
>I was under the impression that the settings; 'security = share',
>'public = yes', and 'guest ok = yes' in my smb.conf would be all that's
>required for this type of access to work but if anybody has any
>suggestions or can provide help I'd be greatly appreciative.
>
>If you have a document containing specific information regarding this
>topic I'd love to read it.
>
>Thanks,
>~Nate
>
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