OK - I continued playing around and discovered a solution (although I'm not sure I understand why it works).
Instead of smb://10.0.0.138 or smb://10.0.0.1 I tried smb://[email protected] and smb://[email protected] and now I'm not being asked for a password. BTW - the same works for my xtreamer which also has an IP address on the network. On Friday, March 16, 2012, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I have a D-link router (from Bezeq). It runs Samba so you can put a USB > disk on the home network. > > When I access smb://10.0.0.138 from Firefox, I can see the files on the USB > disk. But when I try the same thing from Dolphin, Krusader or Konqueror I'm > asked for a username and password. I discovered that if I enter user as the > username and no password, I can reach the files, but I don't understand why > I needed to enter the user in Dolphin, or how I can change this. > > On a similar note, I have a directory on my Linux machine shared over the > network, also using Samba. I discovered that the same thing happens here. > So, in this case, I can reach smb://10.0.0.1 in Firefox, but in Dolphin I > have to enter my username, but with no password. > > What am I doing wrong? -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.13.3 (KDE 4.4.3) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
