Hi all,

I've set up a share on my suse 8 box and I can see it from my windows box but when i try to access it I get a username and password box appear?

I've checked the dir permissions and as far as I can tell they are set to read/write everyone (drwx------)

Any suggestions on what it might be?

Thanks in advance

try creating a new user with the command adduser than creating a account so you can connect to this share from windows. the permissions aren't really going to help unless you have a username pass to get in

cheers danny,

I've tried smbadduser (I guess this is what you mean) but when I type smbadduser newuser, I get this...?

/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `bin': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `boot': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `cdrom': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `dev': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `downloads': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `etc': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `floppy': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `home': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `lib': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `media': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `mnt': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `opt': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `proc': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `root': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `sbin': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `tmp': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `usr': not an alias
/usr/bin/smbadduser: unalias: `var': not an alias

Bit of a noob to this so sorry if I missed the point

If you put in your global:

security=share

And in your share setup:

guest ok=yes
guest only=yes

It should let everyone connect to the share without the need for a password. It would be a good idea to limit which IPs can connect to the share (this can be done in smb.conf) since anyone in the world could get into your file server with this setup (assuming of course your file server is open to the internet, otherwise, it isn't really a problem).

I added what you advised but it hasn't changed anything?

This is my smb.conf file (etc/samba/smb.conf)

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = DREADZONE
netbios name = PLUTO
server string = Pluto
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
character set = ISO8859-15
os level = 2
guest only = Yes
guest ok = Yes
printing = lprng
veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
create mask = 0640
directory mask = 0750
browseable = No

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
create mask = 0600
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[Linux Downloads]
path = /downloads
comment = Linux Downloads on Pluto
writeable = yes

Here is a basic smb.conf that I use. I know for a fact that this will allow Windows XP (and it should work with NT and 2000) clients to access the share without a password prompt.

Try to use that as the base of your file, and built from it.