Hi, If you are running your samba in an internal network like for my case (at home), you can try commenting off security = user
Then you will not be prompt for password at all. Any comment about this? Security? > I'm running the nmbd and smbd Samba daemons, and having trouble mapping a > network drive on my windows machine to any of my mounted drives. I've > tried the following ways of connecting using windows' map utility (i.e. in > explorer): > > \\debian\hda# (where # = appropriate drive partition) > \\debian\usr (or \root, \var, or \usr) > > In either case, the map utility prompts me for a password to connect to > these resources. I've tried the root password, and all the passwords for > individual users, but it always comes back and says, "the password is > incorrect, please try again." Is there another password that I'm not > aware of that I need to be entering here, or another daemon I'm not yet > running to be able to map a network drive in this way? The man pages > didn't provide as much help as I wished. > > running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel\ > > Brian > > PS: apologies on posting that ZDnet article earlier. In the future, I'll > only post the address to such articles (if they're worth it). Thanks > again, everyone for being patient with a newbie. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __o __o __o __o __________\_))__\_))__\_))__\_))___________. ----------\-----------\-------- R O W I N G Jieyao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ 836655 Don't waste your computer's time. Join the Singapore RC5 Effort now! <http://raffles0005.pc.nus.sg/~rekcah/rc5/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]