samba madness

[Ken Moffat]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>I have a SAMBA server (version 2.2) that is doing 'share' level
>security. This is because each share has a different user and password.
>Somehow, the XP clients out there, when trying to connect to a share,
>get an authorization box with the user name already filled in (as 'G?st'
>which is Swedish for Guest), and will not allow this to be modified. The
>shares are not allowing guest login. On top of that, my Samba server
>doers not speak Swedish, so I do not see how the name came from it.
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>Is this something my SAMBA server is causing, or is it an XP thing? I
>have done some searches but seem to to get my search terms correct as I
>can't fine anything. Or not anything that I recognize as being relevant.
>
>Things look ok from smbclient. But that is a bit of a cheat as smbclient
>would probably play along with whatever samba does more than XP would.
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>Any pointers? 
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My XP box shows Guest and is not changeable, but when I type in a
correct password for a user it connects. However, I have not set up
passwords separately for each share.

AND I am unable to access my home dirs from other machines. This may
require "security=user", but I'm not sure.

Here are 2 shares I use, and can access 'rw' from other machines,
including XP:

[music]
   path = /mnt/hda7/mp3
   browseable = yes
   write list = ken, jack, jill

[images]
   path = /mnt/hda6/images
   browseable = yes
   write list = ken, jack, jill


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ken