[Samba] SAMBA: how do I tell SAMBA to not prompt for id/passwords when connecting from windows (vista)

[Dennis B. Hopp]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 10:01 -0400, joseph collins wrote:
> I have a linux box on my home network and it also has xp and win viata on the same network.
> It is all friendly - how do I drop the need for Id/pw (if I can't, how do I set the id/pw
> so what I type in win vista gets passed to samba cleanly and thus I get in. I have tried
> many things in smb.conf and cannot figure it out
> TIA,
> 

What is security set to in your smb.conf file (i.e. user, server, ads)?

How do you have your shares configured?

--Dennis