From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 14:56:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5163737B402 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31062 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 23:02:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 23:02:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: "James Green" , Subject: Re: Samba on 4.5: how to stop WinXP asking for Guest password? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:24:08 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02021317240804.00408@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 13 February 2002 11:59, James Green wrote: > We have a local FreeBSD4.5 box that has Samba on it. I have logged in to > WinXP under the username and password identical to that as my user account > on the BSD box. Did you add this account to the smbpasswd list with "smbpasswd -a"? If not, Windows encrypted password auth will fail, and Samba will try to log you in as guest, but if guest isn't set up correctly or gues logins are denied, you'll be unable to log in. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message