samba madness

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005, 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.

The older versions of Samba are less than optimal when dealing with
Windows > 98, and I would strongly recommend updating to the current
version (3.0.11 if I remember correctly).  The authentication and support
for NT domains has changed radically since the early versions of Windows.

I would also recommend downloading the latest and greatest versions of John
Terpstra's Samba HowTo and Samby by Example from the samba.org web site.
In particular the Samba by Example has many examples based on real-world
installations that John has done.

Bill
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