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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2006 10:57:31 -0700
From:      "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com>
To:        Vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: public samba share annoyingly asking for password
Message-ID:  <df9ac37c0605021057u7c0b155v78d708e6ec9f5ee5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <10af59b8c90.vdemart1@tin.it>
References:  <10af59b8c90.vdemart1@tin.it>

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On 5/2/06, Vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> wrote:
> Now, the problem is that
> at boot time - after logging in the MS-windows client -  windows 2000
> or NT clients present the user with a pop-up window asking for a
> password to connect to the public share (I created the 'pcguest'
> freebsd user as a passwordless user and to 'smbpasswd pcguest' I didn't
> provide any password at all!). Clicking on OK the share is immediatedly
> connected and it all works. Nonetheless the pop-up window asking for a
> password is somewhat disturbing.
> By the way, windows XP clients don't
> seem to suffer from the same problem. They connect to the share
> smoothly, without asking anything as expected!
>

Check the samba logs, I suspect the NT client is trying to auth as
"DOMAIN\user" instead of just "user". That doesn't work because the
samba server is not part of a domain; when you click OK the NT client
is sending a new auth as just "user". I've seen this on Win2k clients.

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