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psiakrew
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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:21 am Post subject: samba configuration blues |
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So, I'm following the Samba howto located at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml, using the example smb.conf file presented there in section 4, which is supposed to let clients just use the shares without a password, but when I locate my samba server on my windows machine, a dialog pops up asking for a password with the username field grayed out, saying 'SERVERHOSTNAME\Guest', and I get the following error message in my logs:
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[2005/07/22 02:14:39, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(822)
User samba in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!
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thoughtform
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:05 am Post subject: |
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i got this to work.
i used the webmin samba module.
you must check allow null passwords and also create a guest account in samba.
smbpaswd -a guest
null password.
good luck,
Scorpaen |
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psiakrew
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, thank you for the reply. I tried what you suggested (although without webadmin):
# smbpasswd -a guest
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user guest.
hitting only the Return key for the passwords. I even tried adding the 'Guest' and 'GUEST' users, but the log files keep giving the same error message as the one posted above. If you could post your /etc/samba/smb.conf file, I'd greatly appreciate it. |
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