[NBLUG/talk] No password on samba share?

David shadoweyez at hotpop.com
Fri Dec 3 14:43:17 PST 2004


I know this is mostly a samba issue, but I'll post here as well. Small home
network with a gentoo linux system running the samba server 3

I've set up a user 'foobar' on the linux box, put it in the smbpasswd
database, and every time the users in windows try to access the share, they
always get the user/password prompt in windows. In the global section of
/etc/samba/smb.conf file I have tried secruity = user, secruity = share,
guest account=foobar, and in the "storage" share definition I have force
user=foobar, writeable=yes, browsable=yes, but in windows the users still
have to enter a username/password.

BTW, this machine does not have an X server and I am not using SWAT to setup
the smb.conf file. The overall objective is to get every windows box on the
network to have full read/write on the share with out entering
usernames/passwords every time they need to access the share. 






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