On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Joshua J. Kugler elucidated thus: > I've googled and read, and haven't run across any solutions to this > problem. Yes, I know about the "Network Security: LAN Manager > authentication level" change, but, as you will see, this isn't the > issue. > > Samba 3.4.7 > Windows 7 > > Windows machine is on a domain. Samba box is *not* on a domain. > > Windows insists on adding the domain to the user name when browsing > to Samba machine. Saving credentials and editing in Credential > Manager kind of works, and the Samba share will open once the > password is entered yet another time (don't know why)but it only > saves it until logout. > > Adding the samba host/user/pass in Generic Credentials doesn't seem > to make windows use that user/pass for that host. Ideas? > > Oh, and using 'net use...' with the Samba system's user/pass works > just GREAT, and we may resort to that, but were trying to avoid it. > > Any other tricks I can do? So users can easily log in from the GUI?
This is an old thread, but I wanted to register a solution. All that is required when entering a user name for the outside-the-domain Samba server is to enter the name as: \username The leading \ removes the domain from being sent. Works for me, YMMV! j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
