In looking around some more, it looks like this is indeed the correct behavior for "security = user" unless I add the following:
map to guest = Bad Password or map to guest = Bad User Otherwise I need to switch to security = share Thanks, Gerry On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Horton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:14:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want Windows users on my network to be able to print to my printer > > without a password. I have "guest ok = yes" in the printers share. I also > > have "security = user" in the global section. Shouldn't this allow > > printing without a password? Currently it does not. Printing does work > > fine with a correct username and password from the Windows machines > > though. But, it always prompts for a password, and if the password is > > incorrect or blank, it fails. Does "guest ok" only work when "security = > > share"? Any ideas what might be wrong? > > > > There's an option that controls how unknown users / passwords > are mapped to the guest account (man smb.conf) which I had to > tweak to get guest access to shares without a password. > > HTH, > > P. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >