check your smb.conf. see to it that the user/username you're logging in as is among the names listed in "valid user = ", or if you would prefer to eliminate passwd validation, i suppose you could enable guest access, and discard smb/nmb packets originating from outside: ipchains -Ainput -j DENY -s ! <private network> -d <samba server> 139 -i <network interface> -p tcp -l [man ipchains, man smb.conf] On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, David Huybregts wrote: DH> Hello All, DH> DH> DH> I'm trying to get Samba to work at my little network. DH> It seems that something is happening; when I'm starting my Win95 laptop he DH> asks twice for a password for my printer and for my CD-rom player (both DH> connected to my linux box (10.0.0.1). DH> DH> Whatever I password I use, it is refused... It has probably something to do DH> with the user logging on the laptop... DH> DH> Is it not possible to allow all users from 10.0.0.2 (my laptop) to use the DH> printer and cd-rom player without defining all kind of users...? DH> DH> David. DH> DH> DH>
