Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-16 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:50 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > I'm still trying to figure this out, but, what puzzles me is what > caused things to change. It was working perfectly. It could easily be > some Windows update as well as some Samba update, I suppose. I've > tried to google this issue, but

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-16 Thread Claude Jones
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Craig White wrote: > I think you need to set 'guest account' > > see the man page for smb.conf and locate the > > NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION > > SECURITY = SHARE > > sections > > also - fwiw, 'testparm -sv' will give you all the settings, > including

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 00:05 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > > > Windows computer WIN7JJ doesn't belong to a workgroup called > > > 'Workgroup' > > > > > how did you determine that? I'll check on that for sure > > > > I'm not sure why it didn't sa

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Claude Jones
On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > Windows computer WIN7JJ doesn't belong to a workgroup called > 'Workgroup' > how did you determine that? I'll check on that for sure > I'm not sure why it didn't say 'anonymous' when you connected > to it. Did you type a password? no, I pressed 'en

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 22:44 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > > > I think that your smb4k must have an issue > > > I just threw smb4k on there after I encountered the problem with > listing the workgroup from Dolphin. I've been able to use it in years

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Claude Jones
On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > I think that your smb4k must have an issue I just threw smb4k on there after I encountered the problem with listing the workgroup from Dolphin. I've been able to use it in years past to get past various issues. There probably is a problem with sm

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 21:58 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > > > I don't know that Windows 7 is capable of accessing 'share > > > mode' but this page should prove useful in any event... > > > > > > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 > > > We

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Claude Jones
On Monday, August 15, 2011, Craig White wrote: > I don't know that Windows 7 is capable of accessing 'share > mode' but this page should prove useful in any event... > > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7 Well, as I said in my original post, I have no problems accessing the shares on my Fe

Re: Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 19:19 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > I think Samba's the culprit. Samba is set up in share mode on my mixed > Win7 and Linux network. Up to some recent period, Windows boxes could > see my Fedora shares and my Fedora box could get on the network and > see the Windows shares - ty

Samba asking for authorization to browse suddenly

2011-08-15 Thread Claude Jones
I think Samba's the culprit. Samba is set up in share mode on my mixed Win7 and Linux network. Up to some recent period, Windows boxes could see my Fedora shares and my Fedora box could get on the network and see the Windows shares - typically I use Dolphin and select Network\Samba Shares That