[wellylug] Samba config

[Chris Hodgetts]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 15:49 +1300, E.Chalaron wrote:
> Hi all
> A small issue regarding Samba.
> One of my machine here has a directory for common files I need to share with a 
> windows machine.
> All machine (Linux) can find this shared folder BUT the windows machine just 
> refuse to accept login / password ...
> The workgroup is properly defined.
> Did I miss anything ? 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Ed.


Do you have 
 security = 

set to user or share?

If you set it to user, you will need to create a SMB password using the
smbpasswd utility - try setting it to share, that way anyone can see it,
then restrict it down again if you need to.