[Samba] Windows XP connects as guest instead of letting me choosethe username / password

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Had the same thing happening to me a few days ago. In my case, the problem 
was that the WinXP login/password were not the same as the Linux/Samba 
login/password. However, this only happened when the security level of my 
Samba server was set to share. If you switch to security= user and have a 
SMB user for each Windows user, you can login with the usual login/password 
combination.
Since I am pretty new to this Samba stuff, you might wanna listen to more 
experienced guys though, anyway :)

Cheers,

Jörg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ganeshram Iyer" <ganeshramiyer at gmail.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows XP connects as guest instead of letting me 
choosethe username / password


>I did have this problem. It has something to do with XP. at this time
> i was unable to find the required MS documents but this is what I use
> to circumvent the problem:
>
> net use d: \\computername\sharename /user:usrname /password:urpasswd
> /persistent:yes
>
> i think this is the right syntax. if it is wrong please someone on the
> group correct it for me.
>
> i think you can put a modification of this in your
> netlogon.bat/logon.bat so that it picks up each time you log on.
> Ganesh
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100, Sebastian <space_cadet at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me mad,
>> I'll ask anyway.
>>
>> What I want:
>>
>> In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select one
>> of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective
>> Samba-username & -password to access the share.
>>
>> What I get:
>>
>> I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out, asking me for a
>> password.
>>
>> My question:
>>
>> WHY does XP always assume I want to access the share as "Guest"? Can I
>> disable this behavior somehow?
>>
>> What I tried:
>>
>> - set requiresignorseal = 0 in XP registry
>> - set security to SHARE in smb.conf
>> - disabled XP simple file sharing
>> - registered the username/password combo with samba using smbpasswd
>>
>> Has anyone had this problem before? Any suggestions? Thank you very much,
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
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