samba - Sep 2004 - Getting Samba to ask for Username and Password

Can somebody tell me how to get samba to ask me for a username and password 
when I click on my Samba server in Windows XP Explorer? 

When I click on another computer on the network (Workstation A) from a 
workstation (Workstation B) where I'm NOT logged in with a username:password
that
Workstation A recognizes as having an account, I get a dialog box asking me for 
a username and password. 

But when I click on the Samba server from a machine that doesn't have an 
account on the Samba server, I just get a message saying "the resource
can't be
found or I don't have permission to use it. Contact my administrator."
Or
something like that. 

How do I have to configure smb.conf to get the username:password dialog box? 

Regards,
Andy Liebman

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:18:43 EDT, andyliebman@aol.com
<andyliebman@aol.com> wrote:
> Can somebody tell me how to get samba to ask me for a username and password
> when I click on my Samba server in Windows XP Explorer?
> 
> When I click on another computer on the network (Workstation A) from a
> workstation (Workstation B) where I'm NOT logged in with a
username:password that
> Workstation A recognizes as having an account, I get a dialog box asking me
for
> a username and password.
> 
> But when I click on the Samba server from a machine that doesn't have
an
> account on the Samba server, I just get a message saying "the resource
can't be
> found or I don't have permission to use it. Contact my
administrator." Or
> something like that.
all XP machines have an account to log in to themselves/network, and
that is what is passed to the samba.  if that username is the same as
in samba, but different passwords, it will not let you in.  If it
completely doesnt exist, it should prompt you for one..and finally -
you can set samba up to allow guest, meaning if the username doesnt
exist, it signs them in asa guest account (however, if the username
does exist, and it is a bad password, it denies access - there is a
flag to turn that off as well, but then things get confusing with the
worng username/passwords allowing access)



> 
> How do I have to configure smb.conf to get the username:password dialog
box?
> 
> Regards,
> Andy Liebman
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> In a message dated 9/27/2004 12:30:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
techjedi@gmail.com > writes:
> 
> all XP machines have an account to log in to themselves/network, and
> that is what is passed to the samba.  if that username is the same as
> in samba, but different passwords, it will not let you in.  If it
> completely doesnt exist, it should prompt you for one..and finally -
> you can set samba up to allow guest, meaning if the username doesnt
> exist, it signs them in asa guest account (however, if the username
> does exist, and it is a bad password, it denies access - there is a
> flag to turn that off as well, but then things get confusing with the
> worng username/passwords allowing access)
Thanks for the reply, but you are missing my point. I know that if a user has 
a username and password on a Windows XP machine, and he/she has the same 
username and password on the samba server, the user will get in. 

But I have a situation where I have 60 users who have accounts on the samba 
server, and 10 workstations where ANY of the 60 users might sit down to access 
the server. I don't want to create user accounts on every Windows XP 
workstation for ALL 60 users. But I want all users to be able to access the
samba
server from every Windows XP workstation. 

Right now, if create a new username and password on the samba server and try 
to log in from a Windows workstation where that username doesn't have an 
account -- by clicking on the name of the samba server in the place where I see 
other computers on the network --  the samba server simply rejects my log in  
attempt. It doesn't do whatever is required to pop up a dialog box on my
Windows
XP machine and ask for the username and password. 

I'm wondering if there is a specific line in the smb.conf file that brings 
about this action? 

I should note that currently I have my samba server configured so that each 
user sees one public folder, and then all the other folders that are available 
are specific to that user (which I achieve by using "include =
%U.smb.conf" in
my general settings.