[Samba] Windows XP & greyed-out Guest user password prompt
Jules Agee
julesa at pcf.com
Mon Mar 28 19:07:26 GMT 2005
(replying to self)
I'd appreciate any response at all (including RTFM, but a pointer to
which FM I should R again would be very appreciated).
Again, we're running Samba 3.0.7 on Debian Sarge, and this problem
doesn't appear when we connect to Windows file servers, so I thought
someone here might have some information that might help me track down
the solution. Thanks for your time!
Jules Agee wrote:
> Hi, we've been using Samba for a while, and are just now starting to
> switch our desktop computers to Windows XP. We are having a problem
> where connections to our Samba server fail, and the user is presented
> with a password prompt asking for a password for user Guest. They can't
> select a different user.
>
> I've searched the Microsoft knowledgebase, and the Samba list archives,
> and there are others who have seen this problem, but none of the
> suggestions presented seem to help. We are currently using "security =
> share" because there are some legacy scripts that depend on not getting
> prompted for a username to access some read-only shares we have set up.
> But just for troubleshooting, I have tried setting "security = user" and
> "map to guest = Bad User" but XP still presents the guest password
> prompt and the user still isn't allowed to specify their username. We
> are not using a domain controller.
>
> Everything works great when using a Windows 2000 client. In XP, mapping
> a drive to the Samba share works fine. From XP's command prompt, if the
> user's Windows login and password match what's in our LDAP directory
> (and they usually do), it lets them right in -- the user doesn't even
> get a password dialog when they do this:
> "net use \\fileserver.example.com\share /user:joebob" But if you just
> set up a shortcut to \\fileserver.example.com\share or if you try to
> connect from the "run" line, it fails & tries to force them to login
> with the guest account.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, or can even make a guess at an
> explanation for this behavior, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jules
> julesa at pcf.com
>
> smb.conf, slightly sanitized:
> [global]
> admin users = jane,joe,bob
> security = share
> encrypt passwords = true
> ldap suffix = "o=internet"
> ldap admin dn="cn=Administrator,o=internet"
> passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldaps://ldap1.example.com
> ldaps://ldap2.example.com"
> guest account = nobody
> invalid users = root
> workgroup = IS
> netbios name = fileserver.example.com
> server string = File Server
> name resolve order = host bcast
> socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE,TCP_NODELAY
> oplocks = yes
> kernel oplocks = yes
> level2 oplocks = no
> encrypt passwords = yes
> create mask = 770
> directory mask = 0770
> log level = 2
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> max log size = 10000
> map to guest = Bad Password
> load printers = no
> delete veto files = yes
> hide files = /Icon?/
> veto files = /.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/Network Trash
> Folder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/TheFindByContentFolder/
> dns proxy = no
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m.
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
> preserve case = yes
>
> [private]
> comment = Your Private Home Directory
> path = /home/%u
> group = default
> writable = yes
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
>
> [IS]
> comment = Information Systems
> path = /var/local/fileshare/IS
> nt acl support = no
> create mask = 777
> directory mask = 0777
> read only = No
> group = IS
> valid users = @IS, at ISAnalyst, at SupportAnalyst, at SystemAdmin
>
> [updates]
> comment = Software Updates
> path = /var/local/fileshare/admin/updates
> browsable = no
> create mask = 774
> group = SystemAdmin
> directory mask = 0775
> nt acl support = no
> read only = yes
> guest ok = yes
>
>
>
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