From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 2 17:57:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E8E16A4A9 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB79C43D6A for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:57:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atom.powers@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 12so1612865nzp for ; Tue, 02 May 2006 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=i8D5hnaXH+xsDgz/jTJF9kFzvcYbmxRJLUd1x4VpsguCtzKAdTwHhaeWWwedZD2uOpYvHG/j3gOGLFBq5JwMILpes/ViCb6vN/EFDCZQroocYWhqHV7wEnTJLtngOufEQblagWOYDvUuxXnQ4uuxdWLDihHkAurIjVuVBPV6UP0= Received: by 10.65.222.16 with SMTP id z16mr627876qbq; Tue, 02 May 2006 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.150.9 with HTTP; Tue, 2 May 2006 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:57:31 -0700 From: "Atom Powers" To: Vittorio In-Reply-To: <10af59b8c90.vdemart1@tin.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <10af59b8c90.vdemart1@tin.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: public samba share annoyingly asking for password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:57:36 -0000 On 5/2/06, Vittorio 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. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--