little samba local networking question
 

Im running a little network, with my laptop (linux) and my desktop (XP), and a d-link router in between to access the internet.

i have samba installed on the linux box, the gui gnomba, shows me the win xp machine as a little icon. However, when i double click the icon, a authentication dialog appears, and prompts me a username and password. I have never chosen a password in the windows machine, so there shouldn't be any. My other box's running winxp, just logs in, whitout any authentication.

How do I come past this...?

can we assume that you have tried entering your username and no password?

Ensure you have something shared on the XP box and try the console smbclient

smbclient //<XP MACHINE>/<SHARE> -U <username>

yes i have, but i dont even have a username. normally i just enters the workgroup, and then i can see all availible machines and shares

Is something needed on the xp box for me to access it from linux, now that I dont have a username and password.. ?

I really would like this to work, so that i can transfer stuff from the xp box to my linux and visa versa.

I really hope this can work without pass and login, cause then I can access different computers at school, also.

Araldit,

If you haven't created any account at all on the XP laptop then it's probably automatically logging in to the desktop using the 'Administrator' account. Using a Windows system as Administrator and enabling networking with no passwords on accounts is very high risk, and I'd strongly recommend that you setup a user account and passwords before going any further with this.

Once you have given a username and password, you should only need to be asked again on a Windows network when the machine you're trying to connect to won't accept those details (because it's a different domain).