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

Al Schapira a.schapira at verizon.net
Fri Mar 6 19:00:18 MST 2015


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




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