It seems that when I used SuSE's YaST (gui) to set my Samba parameters,
the parameter "guest ok" was set to "yes" but it remained as "No" in the
smb.conf file. (I haven't been able to duplicate it.) Anyway, perhaps
this can help someone.
Don Henson
Donald D Henson wrote:
I'm a Samba newbie also so please bear with me.
I installed Samba 2.x under SuSE 9.0. It worked well for my simple
setup (home network with one Linux fileserver, one WindowsXP desktop,
and one WindowsXP laptop all connected via a 10/100 ethernet). When I
upgraded to SuSE 9.1, I was automatically upgraded to Samba 3.x. This
still worked with my original settings but something would go wrong
about once every 24 hours or so. (I would have to disable and restart
Samba.) When I ran across Samba 3.0.7, I installed it and now things
seem to be working except that Samba always asks me for a username and
password but I can't figure out which username and password it's
asking for. Since this is a home network, I would be quite happy
without usernames and passwords but I can't figure out how to do that
either. I've read about Samba in the SuSE admin manual, studied a
couple of chapters in a Samba online book (that I can't find anymore),
and have reviewed the HOW-TOs that come with Samba. For a newbie,
these publications are very difficult to understand.
I just want my Windows clients to be able to access some files on my
Linux box. Any assistance in this direction will be appreciated.
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Donald D. Henson, Managing Director
West El Paso Information Network
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