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

[John Drescher]

> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:04 -0400, joseph collins wrote:
>> Hi - no security is set at all. No shares configured - took all the
>> defaults
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
> I'm confused as to what you are trying to accomplish then.  I'm assuming
> you are trying to get access to the data on your Linux box correct?
>
I am confused as well.

>
> Can you give us more details as to what you want to accomplish.  Also,
> pasting the relevant parts of smb.conf would be helpful.
>
That would be helpful. If there are no shares on the linux box then
you then do you want access your windows shares from linux?

cifs is for that. It is built into the kernel and mounted with
mount.cifs or mount -t cifs

John