Browse Samba server from XP

[Irving, Dave]

Now im really confused... I thought that the guest account was supposed to
exist in /etc/passwd? I've obviously got the wrong end of the stick from the
docs I've read.

So what should guest account be? If its not meant to be in /etc/passwd or
smbpasswd, should it just be a random name? (If so, I tried that - and I
still got challenged for a user name / password...?) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Apprich [mailto:a.apprich at science-computing.de] 
Sent: 01 March 2005 14:19
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Browse Samba server from XP

Dave,

Irving, Dave wrote:
> I added the following to [publicShare]
> 
>   guest ok = true
>   guest account = nobody
>   guest only = true
> 
> I then restarted samba.
> However, Im still getting challenged for a user name / password when 
> trying to connect?
> Is there something else I need to do?
> 

Yep, do not use nobody, because nobody probably exists in your /etc/passwd.
Also make sure that nobody doesn't exist in smbpasswd

> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
Alex

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