Benjamin Scott
1998-Nov-05 15:02 UTC
Browsing shares not done as guest? (was: Cannot browse the shares on Samba server)
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Sean E. Millichamp wrote:> As far as I can tell, one of two things is occuring: Your Win 95 OSR2 has > one of the MS networking updates applied to it that requires you to use > Samba's "encrypted password" support (I believe this is already patched > with OSR2).I had thought that browsing was supposed to be done as the "guest" user, but I setup a client account (complete with encrypted password matching the Windoze machine), and sure, enough, that fixed it! Thank you very much for your prompt response. You have saved me a great deal of trouble. :-) I owe you a <insert food or beverage item of choice here>. Now, a curiosity question: I had thought, from reading BROWSING.txt, that browsing of shares was done as the guest user, same as browsing of hosts. I gather my assumption was incorrect, and that you need to authenticate your username/password with the SMB server before you can see the shares on that server? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Scott <bscott@hamptonsys.com> Phone: (603)431-7315 Hampton Systems Group, Inc. Fax : (603)431-0822 http://www.hamptonsys.com DSN : 852-3581 ======================================================================
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