[Samba] Puzzle -- Logon/Login from Windows XP

[AndyLiebman at aol.com]

> In a message dated 9/29/2004 6:20:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
holger.krull at gmx.de 
> writes:

Thanks for the reply

>> So my question is, how can those 100 users logon to the Samba server from 
ANY 
>> workstation without having an account on the Windows XP workstation that 
>> matches their username/password on the Samba server? 
>
> Why don't you want to creat a domain?

How do you define and create a domain? And is it difficult to maintain a 
domain as the users change? 

And what if the Samba server is just one of many servers on a network that 
might have other domains and domain servers? And what if the workstations have 
to access other domains? This is the sort of environment where my system has to 
work. 

>
>> Isn't there a way to get the Samba server to ask for a username and 
password 
>> when the user clicks on the name of the Samba server in Explorer? 
>
> The server can't ask the user for another username/password. It is a 
> clients decision to ask the user for additional credentials. Unless you 
> find out what specific setting triggers explorer to ask (null session, 
> guest account settings or something, try ethereal) you are out of luck.
>
> Maybe you write a script that mounts the shares with net use and give 
> the samba username with /user:name * to ask for the password.

Any clues about how to write that script. I'm not a samba expert.