[wplug] Samba

[jsbillings at mac.com]

This sounds like it's a bug in XP, not samba.  

Do the logs say anything interesting when you try to log on with XP, in
comparison to loggin on with win2k?

On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:51, Henry Umansky wrote:
> 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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