[Samba] Bringing a laptop to a Samba Network

Steve Cohen scohen at javactivity.org
Fri Feb 25 12:57:24 GMT 2005


Steve Cohen wrote:

> 
> Now, Craig, to your point about security=USER being as good a choice for 
> me:  I'm ready to try this.  Can you explain how it would work for my 
> family users who don't at present log on with passwords? (they are using 
> XP). Do they fall under the guest user as they do with security=SHARE? I 
> don't remember, I set this up over a year ago, but I have a feeling I 
> tried that and it didn't work.  Is there some other setting I would need 
> to change in order to get that working?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 

security=USER
map to guest=Bad User

That turns out to be all I needed to get printing from all computers.
Thanks for all your help.



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