samba - Jan 2005 - Windows XP connects as guest instead of letting me choose the username / password

Hi,

I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me mad, 
I'll ask anyway.

What I want:

In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select one 
of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective 
Samba-username & -password to access the share.

What I get:

I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out, asking me for a 
password.

My question:

WHY does XP always assume I want to access the share as "Guest"? Can I
disable this behavior somehow?

What I tried:

- set requiresignorseal = 0 in XP registry
- set security to SHARE in smb.conf
- disabled XP simple file sharing
- registered the username/password combo with samba using smbpasswd

Has anyone had this problem before? Any suggestions? Thank you very much,

Sebastian

I did have this problem. It has something to do with XP. at this time
i was unable to find the required MS documents but this is what I use
to circumvent the problem:

net use d: \\computername\sharename /user:usrname /password:urpasswd
/persistent:yes

i think this is the right syntax. if it is wrong please someone on the
group correct it for me.

i think you can put a modification of this in your
netlogon.bat/logon.bat so that it picks up each time you log on.
Ganesh


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100, Sebastian <space_cadet@gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me mad,
> I'll ask anyway.
> 
> What I want:
> 
> In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select one
> of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective
> Samba-username & -password to access the share.
> 
> What I get:
> 
> I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out, asking me
for a
> password.
> 
> My question:
> 
> WHY does XP always assume I want to access the share as "Guest"?
Can I
> disable this behavior somehow?
> 
> What I tried:
> 
> - set requiresignorseal = 0 in XP registry
> - set security to SHARE in smb.conf
> - disabled XP simple file sharing
> - registered the username/password combo with samba using smbpasswd
> 
> Has anyone had this problem before? Any suggestions? Thank you very much,
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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-- 
Ganeshram Iyer
415 South Oak St #117
Arlington, TX, 76010
Ph (H) - 817-274-7827

Hi,

thank you for the answers, sorry for the delay. Here's what I think:

Ganeshram: your solution would require me to hardcode the 
password/username combination into Windows XP. I would like to 
double-click a share and enter the respective password and username 
on-the-fly.

Joerg: I do not want to have a Windows user for each SMB user (or vice 
versa). I have quite a few SMB users, whose shares I access from one 
single account on an XP box. Thus, security=user is not an option for me.

I am pretty sure this is just a registry tweak / uncheck-a-checkbox / 
set-a-config-parameter problem. I had the same thing working on Win2k. 
So if anybody has done this, please help. Regards,

Sebastian


remote wrote:
> Had the same thing happening to me a few days ago. In my case, the problem
> was that the WinXP login/password were not the same as the Linux/Samba
> login/password. However, this only happened when the security level of my
> Samba server was set to share. If you switch to security= user and have a
> SMB user for each Windows user, you can login with the usual login/password
> combination.
> Since I am pretty new to this Samba stuff, you might wanna listen to more
> experienced guys though, anyway :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> J?rg
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ganeshram Iyer" 
> <ganeshramiyer@gmail.com>
> To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows XP connects as guest instead of letting me
> choosethe username / password
> 
> 
>> I did have this problem. It has something to do with XP. at this time
>> i was unable to find the required MS documents but this is what I use
>> to circumvent the problem:
>>
>> net use d: \\computername\sharename /user:usrname /password:urpasswd
>> /persistent:yes
>>
>> i think this is the right syntax. if it is wrong please someone on the
>> group correct it for me.
>>
>> i think you can put a modification of this in your
>> netlogon.bat/logon.bat so that it picks up each time you log on.
>> Ganesh
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100, Sebastian
<space_cadet@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me
mad,
>>> I'll ask anyway.
>>>
>>> What I want:
>>>
>>> In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select
one
>>> of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective
>>> Samba-username & -password to access the share.
>>>
>>> What I get:
>>>
>>> I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out,
asking me for a
>>> password.
>>>
>>> My question:
>>>
>>> WHY does XP always assume I want to access the share as
"Guest"? Can I
>>> disable this behavior somehow?
>>>
>>> What I tried:
>>>
>>> - set requiresignorseal = 0 in XP registry
>>> - set security to SHARE in smb.conf
>>> - disabled XP simple file sharing
>>> - registered the username/password combo with samba using smbpasswd
>>>
>>> Has anyone had this problem before? Any suggestions? Thank you very
>>> much,
>>>
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
>>> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Ganeshram Iyer
>> 415 South Oak St #117
>> Arlington, TX, 76010
>> Ph (H) - 817-274-7827
>> -- 
>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
>> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>>
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