On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:

Its because Samba users and passwords are kept SEPARATELY. You need to add samba users with smbpasswd -a unix_user_name command.

That's not what I am asking. I don't want ANY password for Samba. I can edit the samba.conf file to do this manually. Why doesn't YaST allow passwordless access to Samba shares? When I edit it manually, I can just do a "computers near me" under windows, and it sees the shares. I work on a lot of computers for customers, and it's easier for me to have an unprotected network share on my internal network(that's firewalled at the internet connection). I know I don't have to add users/passwords if I edit it manually. Why doesn't YaST support that? Especially since my smb shares are read only anyway? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Larry Stotler schreef:

How do I configure samba on openSUSE(I'm running 11.0) without a password under YaST? I know how to go back in and edit the /etc/samba/samba.conf file manually, but I've never been able to get YaST to configure it properly. It always asks for a password when I try to connect, but no matter what password I setup it never works. I've always had to edit the file by hand to "fix" what YaST should have been able to do. One of the reason's I stick with openSUSE is YaST, but this is something that I have never been able to get to work properly. I figure I'm missing something simple, but I have no idea. Thanx

Well, if you use kde4, it is simple. The kde-sambamodule is not implemented, and there you set accept guestlogins, without password. About KDE3 in 11, i don't know, kde3 used to have the kde-sambamodule, but i am not using kde3 anymore.. I suffer the same problem: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372261 -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25.9-3-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0.42 (x86_64) Alpha0 KDE: 4.00.85 (KDE 4.0.85 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080703) "release 3.3" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Larry Stotler schreef:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Oddball wrote:

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Larry Stotler schreef: Well, if you use kde4, it is simple. The kde-sambamodule is not implemented, and there you set accept guestlogins, without password.

Why do you need a kde program to setup samba? I just use YaST. Never heard of having to use something else to do it.

That is exactly what i think: overvaluation of kde, i think, thereby degrading, and crippling a working app (samba), and make it dependable from a Desktop environment... i never liked it, but i cann't do zilch about it.. ;)

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About KDE3 in 11, i don't know, kde3 used to have the kde-sambamodule, but i am not using kde3 anymore.. I suffer the same problem:

I don't use KDE4 much. It's just too different from v3.x. Too much eyecandy and too many things are missing.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372261

Hmmm....well, there hasn't been any activity on that in over a month.... :-(

Exactly... But you can take a look in kde3's config mngr, and look for samba. As root you will be able to solve your problem. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.25.9-3-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0.42 (x86_64) Alpha0 KDE: 4.00.85 (KDE 4.0.85 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080703) "release 3.3" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org