Server: Samba on Ubuntu 12.04, with security = user
.
A variety of file shares - some need to be accessible by guests, some are allowed users = user1
.
Client: Windows XP, on same workgroup as the server.
Start → Run → \\192.168.1.240
brings up a Windows dialog box asking for username and password, before it's even displayed the list of file shares available on the server. (Supplying user1's password gets past this point, but I think the password shouldn't be required yet)
What could be causing this? How to fix this?
Ideal result: \\192.168.1.240
displays the list of shares (without any credentials), and password is only needed to access the ones with allowed users
or guest ok = no
in smb.conf
.
pdbedit -x -u <username>
. Also see serverfault.com/questions/575394/… - the rest was taken care of viamap to guest = bad user
in the smb.conf