FC2 samba password...

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 02:06, Dexter Ang wrote:
> MG wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I setup the samba 3.0.3-5 in FC2. It is running, but the users cannot browse
> > the share, because it ask the password.
> > I remove the nobody from smbpasswd and I restart samba, then okay!
> > But then samba rewrite nobody to smbpasswd. Why?
> > Or why does it ask the password?
> > It is bug?

> search in bugzilla. although there hasn't been feedback on this, it 
> seems to be a bug. try to access your share directly 
> //servername/Install. it should be able to access directly. but going 
> through the server first via //servername, it's the only time it will 
> ask for a password. i have the same setup on my laptop. hopefully it's 
> fixed soon, as it always worked without problems on FC1. of note is to 
> check the samba.org bug list. there seems to be a bug in 3.0.3 with 
> regards to security=share setting. it's been fixed in 3.0.4, but i have 
> no idea if it's the same bug.

Stab in the dark..

Does your users need Write access?? or are you only planning to give
read-only access.

I see 

guess ok = yes
public = yes


right???

So, if the user who is browsing around your samba server(From Linux or
Windows??),  If that user is a valid user in the Windows Domain, and not
on your FC2 pc/server, then it will ask you for a password. (1 time)

If that windows user has an account on the FC2, but the password is not
in sync with samba's password backend, then he/she will keep getting
asked for a password. (_keep_on_&_on)

To disable this, and enable guest users, your smb.conf global section
needs to have this line

map to guest = bad user

I hope that helps and I really hope that's what you're asking.
Otherwise, Sorry Dude..
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