[Samba] Corrent security mode settings to allow mess-windows XP behave!

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Apr 6 16:12:07 MDT 2010


At Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:35:19 -0700 Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:33:10PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > > Right now, I have the
> > > security mode set to 'share'.
> > 
> > "security = share" is deprecated and not recommend
> > 
> > you're going to make Jeremy wish he removed support for it :)
> 
> Nah. Enough people complain that we'll *never* be
> able to get rid of it :-).

Setting it to 'user' causes mess-windows to ask for a username and
password to access the *anoymous* (guest ok = yes) printers and share!

> 
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