Thus spake Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [03/07/03 13:19]: > I'm not exactly sure why or how, but it appears that XP picks up the fact > that it's being connected as the forced user (smbguest), and continues > trying to authenticate to other services/shares as that user (smbugest). > I'm not sure if this carry-over is being done in XP or in Samba or in their > interaction, but I know it's happening. > > Every other service on the samba server has user smbguest as an invalid > user, so once a machine authenticated to the forced user service, it lost > connections to all other services. I have since changed configuration, and > it all /seems/ to be working at this point. Just wondering if others can > comment/confirm/deny the above?
FWIW, I can confirm that the fix I put in (removing all force user/group declarations) has indeed worked -- the majority of our XP problems are now gone. Now to finish figuring out the slow roaming profiles... -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
