[Samba] COMPUTERNAME/Guest in login

[Rubin Bennett]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:46 +0700, Joakim Lagerqvist wrote:


> This is what happens:
> When I browse the microsoft windows network and find my workgroup my
> samba server shows up. But when I double click on it I can't fill in my
> username. Instead it shows my computer name (client) followed by a slash
> and "Guest" and the field is not editable. I can however enter a
> password.
> 
> If I instead type \\ followed by the servers IP address (\\192.168.0.1),
> I can fill in both my username and password and log in without problems.

That sounds a lot like a DNS issue to me... are you running your own DNS
server there, or are all the clients looking at the same DNS info?
Rubin

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