Hey all,

I have a share setup but I have it setup for everyone (guest ok = yes)
I tried setting up user authentication so a password is needed to access the share. I tried valid users = username. Every time I try this, it prompts me for a guest password.
Does anyone know how I can setup this folder share to prompt me for the password of a username on the system or even a domain user name from the network?

Thanks

It has been awhile (thankfully) since I have worked with Windows clients, but as I recall, Windows always defaults to "Guest" unless the username the server wants is also the username of the person currently logged into the local computer. You can put in a different username, but to do that you need to select the option from the "Map Network Drive" dialog. Or at least, that is the only place I know for a fact you can do it.

You could force a particular username to be used from the server side, but that doesn't sound like what you want to do.

As for using usernames from a domain, in theory that sounds like it would probably work better than the default authentication scheme, but I have never attempted such a setup myself.