On Monday 10 May 2004 13:00, Donald Henson wrote:
I've got SuSE Linux 9.1 running on a laptop which is on a local network with my Linux fileserver (running SuSE Linux 9.0) and a Windows XP workstation. I have been using Samba (Version 2.x?) to set up my shares. Everything has been working okay. Apparently, 9.1 uses Samba 3.0. I can publish shares and can access the 9.1 shares. However, when I try to access shares on other machines from my laptop (9.1), I have to log in. Sometimes I have to log in multiple times. My existing system lets any user access any share without a login and that's the way I want my laptop to work. I've tried setting various Samba parameters and have looked at file permissions but nothing I try seems to work. I even tried RTFM. I think I may just be too close to the problem. Any pointers on what to try next will be sincerely appreciated.
Don Henson
Why not use swat? Did they disable that in 3.0? Its on the globals page, security option. Previously, The default security = user, as this was the most common setting needed when talking to Windows 98 and Windows NT. The alternatives are security = share, security = server or security = domain . In versions of Samba prior to 2.0.0, the default was security = share mainly because that was the only option at one stage. I now suspect server = user is the default. But once you feed it a password, it should remember it and log in with that next time. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen