Dear Sayamindu, There are various methods to solve your problem. Here is the description step by step.
Share Level Security Access ---------------------------------- Open smb.conf Search for entry security = user change it to security = share Now when your machine will be browsed it won't ask for a password. But it will ask for a password if you have assigned it on a share. If you wish to make the security = user then it will prompt for the password, see how to solve the problem. User Level Security Access --------------------------------- Suppose you have a user called myuser on windoz platform to login, now you will have to authorize this user on Linux also to let it access the shares etc. For this issue following commands on Linux Box: adduser myuser passwd myuser smbpasswd -a myuser samba restart now you login as myuser on a windhoz PC Open Network Neighbourhood and open your machine, now it should not ask for any passwords. [AS IPC$ password will be taken automatically from SMB User Password Database] If you wish to browse other machines from Linux in GUI mode there are many SMB Browsers such as XSMBrowser Samba Sentinel GNOMBa I hope this will solve your problem. _________ Vivek Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > Hi, > well, i managed to install mandrake in my school recently (took a whole day >12:00-5:00 to install). > the system is running quite nicely, but i've not yet managed to configure samba > we have a lan consisting of 24 boxes (23 of them running winblows 98), and i have >managed to configure the networking, so that the > lin-box is showing up in the network neighbourhood in the win-boxes > but when one tries to browse that box thru network neighborhood, it prompts for a >password > how do i set that passowrd? > secondly, how do i browse the other winblows boxes thru my linux box..i heard of >something about smbmount, but i cannot > get the syntax right :( > plzz help > -TIA- > Sayamindu > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
