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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:24:08 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Samba on 4.5: how to stop WinXP asking for Guest password?
Message-ID:  <02021317240804.00408@proxy.pt.com>
In-Reply-To: <IGEPIJPNHPMGCANGLCBHMEJFCBAA.james@stealthnet.co.uk>
References:  <IGEPIJPNHPMGCANGLCBHMEJFCBAA.james@stealthnet.co.uk>

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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

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