[Samba] SOLVED: Re: Windows XP sees fedora14/samba3 shares but not fedora20/samba4 shares

[Rowland Penny]

On 07/03/15 02:02, Al Schapira wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 21:59 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
>
>> try adding 'map to guest = Bad User' to smb.conf
>>
>> Rowland
>>
> IT WORKED!!!  THANK YOU.
> Now the XP machine can see both the f14 and f20 shares.  (It was not
> even necessary to restart nmbd or smbd on the f20 machines.)
>
> Now, if I'm not asking for too much, can you please explain why this
> worked.  :-)
>
> Many thanks again.
>
> 	-Al
>
>
>

Try reading 'man smb.conf', it is explained in there.

Rowland