password protect samba share on every access?

David Desscan ddesscan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 02:11:36 UTC 2006


Windows XP cache the password you provided.  Once you provided the
exact username and password for the shared folders, it remembers
the credentials but only until you reboot.  I am not sure about samba.  I
know only the machine password timeout option is available with samba
version 3.

On 7/28/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have FC5 running fine with samba and some stuff shared from it to
> rest of the network. My shares are password protected. I can access
> these shares from XP machines. For the first access, it asks username
> and passowrd (which is fine) and permission is granted. Now next
> subsequent access to samba shares are granted without any
> authentication (which is not fine) until the client reboots (XP
> machine).
>
> I don't know which one is responsible for remembering the password (XP
> or samba) but what I need is username and password should be provided
> everytime the resource being accessed.
>
> is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
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