[Samba] Samba and USB Drive

[Scott Serr]

Phillip Williams wrote:

>I have posted this 2 other times and it never seems to get a reply.
>
>Simple problem, I think.
>
>I have a Max Attach USB drive connected to the linux box.
>
>I have mounted the drive and can read and write to it from the linux box
>without issue.
>
>When I mount it in samba and try to access it via a windows machine it
>asks for the password to the Guest account.
>
>Does anybody know why?
>How to correct?
>
>Please somebody reply, even just to let me know that at least this
>message is reaching the list!
>
>-Phillip
>
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>
I doubt it matters that you are using a USB drive.  Have you tried 
sharing /tmp or something?  Probably you still get the same request for 
password right?

We probably need to know what version of Windows you are using.  What 
does your smb.conf look like?  Is your samba guest user setup?