[Samba] Windows 'NETWORK PASSWORD' Samba printer

[Chris McKeever]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:36:13 -0600, Chris McKeever <techjedi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


a little more playing and 

!administrator = * 

lets the administrator work, but then all shares become disabled for
the anonymous users

> 
> 
> >
> > cheers, jerry
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