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

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Apr 6 17:58:34 MDT 2010


At Tue, 6 Apr 2010 18:57:20 -0400 Chris Smith <smb_77 at chrissmith.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > Setting it to 'user' causes mess-windows to ask for a username and
> > password to access the *anoymous* (guest ok = yes) printers and share!
> 
> That will happen if you don't set it up properly.

Yeah.  I added 'map to guest = bad user'.  The anonymous shares are
working.  Windows now asks for a username AND password for the protected
shares, but cannot connect, claiming the share is already open under a
different user (or some such nonsense).

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