WinXP networking problem

[tommyj27]

ok, here's one for those of you who know windows xp better than I. I've got a samba server with shares set up to allow guest access. I can connect from a Win2k box by just leaving the user and password fields blank when i connect to the server. XP on the other hand won't allow me to connect without at least a username, what gives?

 

[catocom]

it won't let you use the name "administrator" either.
That's one of the things I don't like about it, and one
reason why I don't use it very much here on my lan.

I think I used "root" one time and got it to work with linux.

 

[Mirlyn]

ok, here's one for those of you who know windows xp better than I. I've got a samba server with shares set up to allow guest access. I can connect from a Win2k box by just leaving the user and password fields blank when i connect to the server. XP on the other hand won't allow me to connect without at least a username, what gives?

Whats your smb.conf look like? Might be missing something somewhere....here's mine for reference:

[global]
workgroup = who
netbios name = king
interfaces = eth0
security = SHARE
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
hosts allow = 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0
browseable = yes
create mask = 0777

[mp3]
comment = MP3s
path = /mp3
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

[Programs and Storage]
comment = Software and Files
path = /storage/programs
read only = no
guest ok = yes

[Website Backups]
comment = Site Backups
path = /web
read only = no
guest ok = yes

Works fine here with both 2k/XP and no authentication. Hope this helps.

 

[tommyj27]

the difference is that I'm using USER level security on my system so I can have per user configurations as well.

 

[Mirlyn]

the difference is that I'm using USER level security on my system so I can have per user configurations as well.

Ah. The only user level security I've done are on full domains.