[wplug] Samba

[Henry Umansky]

I fixed the problem, the issue was, in the [global] config section, I 
needed to set the server = share mode and in the one share section that 
didn't need a password prompt, set "guest user = ftp", "guest ok = yes", 
and "guest only = yes".  This did the trick!!!!

-Henry

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:51 AM -0500 Henry Umansky 
<hmust2+ at pitt.edu> wrote:r

> 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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Henry Umansky
hmust2 [at] pitt [dot] edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~hmust2