Browse Samba server from XP

Alexander Apprich a.apprich at science-computing.de
Tue Mar 1 14:19:09 UTC 2005


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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