Samba with no passwords

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:59:41 -0600
>Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:16:18 -0500
>>Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com> wrote:
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>>>Collins Richey wrote:
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>>>>Is there any way to cause the mount not to prompt for a passwd? 
>>>>Hint, I have no defined users and do not log in to the WinXP box.
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>>>If you put the appropriate line in /etc/fstab with password=,user=
>>>then you can just do 'mount /mnt/samba'. (Or it may have to be
>>>user=guest).
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>>Thanks.  It works with user=guest.
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>OK, now to dig a little deeper.  The set of directories (it varies) that
>I'm wanting to access "appear" to have no common high level directory
>(they are anchored on the WinXP desktop), so I need to do a separate
>mount for each. Short of putting a big list in fstab, is there any way
>to get a given directory mounted for general use upon demand, either by
>command or by root command and make the permissions such that normal
>users can manipulate it?
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Have you tried out smbclient which allows you to browse a samba share 
without mounting it:
smbclient //name_of _computer/directory_name ?

Even more comfortable, in kde konqueror you can browse by entering the 
address
smb://name_of _computer/directory_name
(the same works in gnome nautilus, as far as I know).
Klaus