[NTLUG:Discuss] (no subject)

[Michael Patrick]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:44:27AM -0500, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> Unless you are the only one on the network, using the guest account is a bad 
> idea. You probably just need to created the samba users on the Linux box. 
> Samba users are not the same as Linux users.
> 
> As root execute [smbpasswd -a <username>]
> 
> If <username> = a valid Linux username on your samba server, you should be 
> able to browse the users home directory.
>

I do that for browsing the shares themselves... but I couldn't browse the workgroup without the guest entry (Win2k was passing a blank logon credential attempt just to get the browse info... freaky).  Might could have done something with setting up accounts and telling it "map to guest = baduser" but didn't have the time at that moment.

Michael