I am new to linux and Samba. I have a box with Slackware 8.0 (no xwindows) and Samba (that came on the CD) installed. I am useing the /etc/samba/smb.config-sample remaned to smb.conf file for my configuration file for Samba to learn on. I have read many how-to's and article on the net to the point that I am only getting more frustrated and confussed. I would like to start out with a few basic questions that I just dont seem to fully understand from what I have read. I am useing a Win2K box to test Samba with. I can browse through network neighborhood to the "slacknet" workgroup, but get the errors for account autorization errors or access denied. I can even do find computer and see the system netbios name of the slackware box, but still no access. 1. how does the line "guest account = pcguest" affect things if left commented out or uncommented. 2. can someone tell me what option for the line "security = " I need to use if I want Samba to ask for a user name and password when I try to access it from my win2k box. I have created a local user with "adduser" and added it to the samba user list with "smbpasswd", but it never asks for login info when I try to connect to samba. the user account I created was 'guest01". 3. I have a section that reads [public] path=/usr/somewhere/else/public public=yes only guest=yes writable=yes printable=no Is this good enough or does anything need to be changed?
Thanks so much for your patience with a newbie, David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba