[Samba] Windows 'NETWORK PASSWORD' Samba printer

[Chris McKeever]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:53:54 -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter
<jerry at samba.org> wrote:
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> Chris McKeever wrote:
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> | Thanks for the reply -
> | I have since upgraded to 3.0.11 and the
> | same symptoms occur XP/2000 work
> | great printing/file access anonymously
> | WIN98 anonymous file access WORKS,
> | printing causes a 'NETWORK PASSWORD" dialogue
> 
> Try setting
> 
>        map to guest = bad user
>        uasename map = /etc/samba/smbusers
> 
> and create smbusers to contain
> 
>        !foo = *
> 
> map to guest = bad password implies that the
> authentication failed due to a known username
> but unknown password.  The seteting listed above
> map everyone to an unknown username so that mapt
> to guest is always applied.

Jerry - as always, thank you -- unfortunately though I tried it  still
got the 'network password' pop-up - PLUS that killed the printer
administration via the WINDOWS APW - which makes sense since the
administrator got remapped to the guest account as well



> 
> cheers, jerry
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