[wplug] Samba

Henry Umansky hmust2+ at pitt.edu
Tue Jan 7 09:51:33 EST 2003


I am trying to share two directories on a Linux machines with all the 
recently upgraded Windows XP machines at work.  "Share1" should be 
read-only and not need a password to view the contents.  "Share2" should be 
closed off and only available to 2-3 specific users.  I set everything up 
ok and it seems to work correctly with the old Windows 2000 set-up, the 
only problem I'm having is that no matter what directory I access (share1 
or share2) a username and password prompt pops up.  I only need the 
username/password prompt to come up for share2, and not share1.  Even 
though it pops up for share1, if the user leaves the username and password 
blank, it will get through.  Now this set up was fine and dandy with our 
Win 2000 machines, but now that we upgraded all the machines to Win XP, XP 
will not let you put a blank username and password, so I have to solve the 
problem with the Samba server.

-Henry



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