[luau] Samba problems

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Wed Nov 12 11:04:06 PST 2003


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:57:12AM -1000, Vince Hoang wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:54:18AM -1000, Rodney wrote:
> > From windows, I can see the machine, but as soon as I click
> > on it to browse, I get a window asking for a username and
> > password. I have not set-up anything like that in samba, I want
> > to be able to view the public directories as a guest (w/ read
> > & write access) and not have to log on or anything like that.
> > Can anyone give me any clues as to where I can check/edit my
> > smb.conf file? Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Read up on smbpasswd.

I really advise against this. But, if you still want to, search
for 'guest' when you read the man page for smb.conf. 

Stick to using authentication. If your smbpasswd is the same as
your Windows password, you should still get the appearance of
single-sign on.

-Vince



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