Can't Access Public Samba Share

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:19:34PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> I got it to prompt for a password, but not user. It's Win98, so it doesn't have
> the 'connect as' capability, AFAICT.

Win98/95 always connects as whatever user you are logged in as.  Perhaps
using the 'net' command line tool would let you add a username.

> I did a google search and found these bits to change/add in my smb.conf
> 
> 	security = share
>         workgroup = WORKGROUP
> 
> It worked like a charm. Sorry, should always Google before I ask :P
> 
> I'm not sure that's a good setting, tho, is that less secure? I'm behind a
> firewall so I don't think anyone could access the share from outside...

It's just a different way to do it.

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