I am trying to set samba up such that: there is one shared user account that can read-only browse one dir. I have:
changed security = share to security = user
I have commented out guest account = nobody
added a samba user & password with smbpasswd
This is the dir entry in samba:
[test] comment = is this working? public = no path = /thedir/home/ veto files = /.*/ browseable = yes guest ok = no username = theusername read only = yes
Despite all of these attempts, when I try to open the dir via Windows explorer I get the same greyed out 'servername\Guest' box?!? Without resorting to active directory, is there any way I can have this prompt work with the shared un & pw I am trying to setup?
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
Something to keep in mind is that Windows cleverly will only authenticate with one username per server, so if you have other shares on that server, you must have the same username and password for all of the shares on the server.