inflexion Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Know a little about samba so have set it to allow address that start with 10.0. and i can access the laptop by doing smb://ip address then it gives me a login but there is no password set on the win machine so i cant access the shares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Which Windows? If XP or 2000 have you tried logging in as administrator? More details on your Samba and Windows setup would be helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inflexion Posted April 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 its xp the win machine. Like ive said though the only thing that ive done it set to allow the ip address in the conf file. in windows its just set up as normal ie. Shared folders and all of the default names taken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 smbpasswd -n username -n This option specifies that the username following should have their password set to null (i.e. a blank password) in the local smbpasswd file. This is done by writing the string "NO PASSWORD" as the first part of the first password stored in the smbpasswd file. Note that to allow users to logon to a Samba server once the password has been set to "NO PASSWORD" in the smbpasswd file the administrator must set the following parameter in the [global] section of the smb.conf file : null passwords = yes This option is only available when running smbpasswd as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 you dont really need to touch anything in the conf file of your samba if all you want to do is to access your win xp from you linux machine... and like polemicz said, try to log on it ( ur XP) from ur Linux using the admin username... also, if that user you intend to use to login from ur linux is a normal user in ur Xpee, try to create its own shared folder there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 whoops .. mis read, I was reading it the other way around ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 I was doing the same thing on the weekend, i setup a samba server for the family. https://iphitus.no-ip.org/configs/smb.conf Theres my config. In particular, take note of the system guest account stuff, and the security = share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inflexion Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 cheers guys, ill have a play with that when i can get a spare hour :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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