I have a Samba server that I want to allow anonymous access to for the purpose of printing. It's stand alone and not joined to my Windows domain. When I try to connect to it through a Windows 2000 PC, it pops up a username & password box, but when I click OK I'm in. Not a problem. However, when I try to browse the printer list from a Windows XP box, I get the username & password box, but the username is grayed out. The grayed out username has CUPS\MyGuest (name of cups server\renamed windows guest account). Needless to say, when I click OK, the prompt comes back and I can't get in. The strange thing, If I put in the path to one of the shared printers, I can connect. Here is my smb.conf: [global] netbios name = CUPS workgroup = MYWORKGROUP security = share encrypt passwords = yes guest only = yes load printers = yes guest account = nobody hosts deny = all hostname lookups = yes hosts allow = 127. .domain.domain .otherdomain.domain local master = no printcap name = cups printing = cups load printers = yes restrict anonymous = no map to guest = bad user [printers] path = /tmp printable = yes guest ok = yes public = yes writable = no