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  From: Darryl Ross <rosdr001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:26:56 +1030 (GMT+10:30)

Re: SMB Woes

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> At 12:31 AM 11/8/99 +1030, Darryl Ross <rosdr001@lux.levels.unisa.edu.au>
> wrote:
> >Hey All,
> >
> >Having problems with SMB. Specifically, I can't connect to one of the SMB
> >servers on my network.
> 
> Hmmm, can you tell me what you have for security = in your smb.conf files
> on each of the Linux machines?

I have security = share on both of the machines.
 
> It would seem that you have a pcguest account on DARRYL, since you got away
> without a password, and that you possibly have security=share.

I have set 'guest account = guest' on both machines, and added the
user 'guest' to both machines.
 
> However, in einstein, it would seem that you have security=share.

Did you mean security=user??  Its in share mode according to the smb.conf
file.
 
> the smbclient request has to do a TreCon to the IPC$ share.  In the code
> that handles this in Samba (service.c in source/smbd), there is a complex
> set of goings on that depend on whether or not you are in share level
> security or user level security.  Samba 2.0 and above defaults to user
> level security.

<snip>
 
>    put security = share in the smb.conf for einstein, or use valid
> usernames and passwords on the smbclient request.

I have put security = share in both of them. Also, even if I do use a
valid username and password, it still gives the error...
 
Dazz

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