[Samba] Samba does not allow access to share with another user
Eero Volotinen
eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Thu Dec 3 04:21:02 MST 2009
Quoting Flávio Fonseca <ff at darkpenguin.com.br>:
> Hi Eero,
>
> thanks for you reply. I guess I didnt understand what you mean and maybe my
> text is not clear.
> I know windows fisrt tries to log in to a share with the username and
> password logged in the station. When he cant do this (user does not have the
> permission to access the share) Windows tells you it could not connect and
> ask you for a user/password for that share.
> I used to provide a valid user/passord to this share on the dialog box
> windows prompted me and the it would access the share with this new user.
> For some reason I cant understand Windows or samba is not trying to connect
> to the share with the user I informed on the dialog box. As u can see in log
> I pasted below it only tries to access the share with the logged user and
> never with the user informed in the dialog box.
> I also know this used to work before just fine.
> Please note that in log all errors says it tried to connect with user from
> session setup.
Well, I think if guest user is allowed, then it is possible that
windows never tries to ask password.
If you use map network drive from my computer, you can give password
and username before connecting to drive..
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Eero
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