I'm connecting my laptop into a mixed Linux/MSW network using samba shares. I want access to files on my desktop. At the moment I do this using a 'guest' share - no password required. This works OK but I'd like to make it more secure so I tried changing the share on the desktop to allow only "valid users peter". I then tried to mount the share on my laptop using: mount -t smbfs //desktop/root /mnt/desktop -o username=peter I was then prompted for my password which I gave correctly. The mount was rejected on my laptop saying invalid username/password combination and the samba log on the desktop reported an invalid login. The strange thing was it reported the login by user "nobody" which is the guest username. I tried fiddling with various settings (via webmin and by editing the samba conf file) but it was always the same: the username part of the mount seems to be ignored.
What am I missing? TIA, Peter
