On 07/10/06, David Gillen. <belial at redbrick.dcu.ie> wrote:
> I just recently setup a machine here with fairly barebones ubuntu and a large
> HDD. Plan to use it as general network storage on my predominately windows
> network.
>> [data]
> path = /data/
> guest ok = yes
> case sensitive = no
> msdfs proxy = no
> invalid users =
> guest only = yes
>> Is the block from my /etc/samba/smb.conf file, this was created via the KDE
> system settings interface. Now I can see the computer on my windows machines.
> However when I try to access it prompts for a login. Trying various user name
> and password variations of nothing at all, my own login to the unix box, even
> 'nobody' as the user name all fail.
>> Googling so far isn't turning up anything useful, although I will continue,
> but maybe someone here knows exactly what is going on and how to resolve it.
>> Dave.
Look at line which says Security =
Mine says "Security = Share" and anybody can see the shares without
any login/password
I samba server for storing songs and other files.
Vijay
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