On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Paul Kerin wrote: > Thanks to everyone who has tried to help so far. Not quite there but I > think I'm close. For anyone new, it's a private 2 comp network (RH9 and > WXP) so I just want the simplest guest access possible.
Suggest you remove from your smb.conf file the "encrypt passwords", the "smb passwd file", and the "null passwords" entries, then try again. - John T. > > This is my current smb.conf file: > > [global] > > workgroup = SAMBA > encrypt passwords = yes > smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > security = share > null passwords = yes > > [test] > > comment = For testing only, please > path = /root/transfer > read only = no > guest ok = yes > guest only = yes > > I stop and start SMBD and NMBD after each change to my smb.conf file. I > also run testparm. I've even started rebooting my WXP box to make sure > the changes are picked up. Probably just paranoia but WXP doesn't seem > to notice changes I've made automatically. > > I also tried setting guest account = nobody, setting the linux password > to nobody and setting the smbpasswd to nobody. > > The main change is from user to share access. WXP recognises it as a > guest account now but still prompts for a password. Entering "nobody" > didn't work when I was using the nobody account, Null password doesn't > work when I'm not using nobody as the guest account. > > The folder /root/transfer has permissions set to drwxrwxrwx with the > group nobody and the owner set to nobody. > > I even tried removing all the password related stuff from the globals > area (just workgroup = SAMBA and security = share). Same problem, WXP > expects a password and won't accept what should be the correct password. > I don't think I need to set the netbios name because windows is > detecting it ok, but I tried that as well. > > Is there anything else I can check/try? > > Thanks, > > Paul > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
