[Samba] Samba Support

[Rowland Penny]

On 31/10/14 08:50, David Nolan wrote:
> Good Morning,
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> I understand you provide support for the Samba project.
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> I am searching for some FREE help solving what I think is a very simple
> problem for an experience Samba professional.
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> I am running Samba 2.2.12 on an old SCO OpenServer 5.0.6 box.
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> I cannot update to a more recent version of Samba as this is the last
> version that will run on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6.
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> I have some programs which call SMBCLIENT to 'put' files onto a Windows
> share.
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> The Windows Server is running 2008 R2.
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> The problem I have is that I need to disable the 'guest' account on the
> Windows box and when I do disable it, the SMBCLIENT command fails.
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> How can I get SMBCLIENT to use another account  and what properties does it
> need to have?
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> Your help would be gratefully received.
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> Kind Regards
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> Dave Nolan
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> Anchor Technology
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> 01254-672638
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> 07764-193152
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Wow, that's a blast from the past, late 90's ish, both of the things 
that you refer to are now considered ancient, just what are the programs 
that are running on the sco box, there may be a better way of doing it.

Rowland