Context: pentium 4, freebsd 6.0, samba 3.0.22, 6 windows 2000, NT,XP samba clients
Dear friends, I'm writing to this ML because, googling the net on the subject reported below, it seems that samba works slightly differently according to the platform in which it is installed (I read of differences of behaviour between Fedora and Debian samba installations, or even between FC1 and FC2 installations). I setup a samba server connected to a very large *** original MS-windows LAN *** with the following smb.conf file. The aim is to put in a public read- only share all the programs we need to share. Now, the problem is that at boot time - after logging in the MS-windows client - windows 2000 or NT clients present the user with a pop-up window asking for a password to connect to the public share (I created the 'pcguest' freebsd user as a passwordless user and to 'smbpasswd pcguest' I didn't provide any password at all!). Clicking on OK the share is immediatedly connected and it all works. Nonetheless the pop-up window asking for a password is somewhat disturbing. By the way, windows XP clients don't seem to suffer from the same problem. They connect to the share smoothly, without asking anything as expected! Any idea to solve the problem? Ciao Vittorio ###smb.conf [global] workgroup = mygroup server string = FreeBSD map to guest = Bad User passdb backend = tdbsam security = user guest account = pcguest log file = /var/log/samba/log.% m load printers = No preferred master = No local master = No domain master = No dns proxy = No wins server = 10.100.10.38, 10.100.10.21 hosts allow = 10.100. [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [public] comment = Deposit path = /home/pcguest guest only = Yes guest ok = Yes _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
