Samba

Galaxy_Stranger · 05-16-2010, 11:17 PM

I usually get away with using ftp or http for this, that and the other. I've only just recently gotten into a situation where a Samba share is needed. So, I set one up on my Fedora 11 machine. My XP Home laptop in the bedroom can browse the Samba share just fine - no need to log in or anything and XBMC has no trouble browsing or playing files.

On my XP Pro desktop, when I browse to the same Samba share, it asks me for a user name and password. I try all kinds of users and can't get in. I don't really want it to be asking for credentials anyway, if I can get away with it.

Anyway, I'm 99% sure this is simply an XP client config issue - unless there's some sort of weird difference between XP and Home that would allow Home to get around the issue.

Code:

[movies]
     path = /mnt/storage1/movies
     read only = yes
     browseable = yes
     valid users = <several_users>
     available = yes
     public = yes

Can someone point me in the right direction to find out where the clog is?

TIA.

irishbitte · 05-17-2010, 04:02 PM

Is it possible that the user name and password combo used for your XP Home machine happens to match the username and samba password of one of your valid samba users? The easiest way to get XP to connect to a samba share seamlessly is just that, match them up. This works in a small home environment like yours, but doesn't scale up, however I imagine that's not a problem for you!

Galaxy_Stranger · 05-17-2010, 10:36 PM

Yeah, the machine I'm on I'm logged-in as the same user. Plus, I tried plugging in all the user IDs and passwords I knew.

Dunno whut the deal is.