winblows ask for pass to shared samba folder?

i did a quick setup in samba on my server

[test1]
comment = blahh
volume name = test1
path = /mnt/disk1
writeable = yes

i slapped stuff like that into the /etc/samba/smb.conf


so i reboot and goto find this stuff on windows and get prompted with username + pass, what is that all about????

my question is how do i get to my folders????

i have the same problem. I don't know how to setup samba to share my directories anonymously through the (local) network...

do someone know about this? I've tried looking tutorials about samba, etc. but they talk about users, or they are incomplete (asume that it just works)...

yea it said some stuff in one i read about having to type some really long codes to create users and passwords and then some things for windows on logging into it and all...

im just confused cant i just bipass logging in all together

It sounds like you want a configuration similar to one of the first ones in the Samba 3 by Example book. It is supplied either by the samba package or a samba-doc package. You will still need to set up the directory ownership & permissions, and add a user owning the share, but using "force owner" and "force group" it won't matter which user or password you entered.

thats the only way???

my new smb.conf looks like this

[global]
workgroup = Debian
netbios name = Debian
security = user

[test1]
comment = blah
volume name = disk1
path = /mnt/disk1
public = yes
writeable = yes

[test2]
comment = blah
volume name = disk2
path = /mnt/disk2
public = yes
writeable = yes

[test3]
comment = blah
volume name = disk3
path = /root/files
public = yes
writeable = yes

its still bad......

I think the user name and password must be the same on both the Linux system and the windows system. It works for me with WinNT4.0 and a Debian server.

ok ill try that but it sounds like a pain

If you want a public share where you don't need permissions you could use the "guest ok = yes" option.

Here is an example:
For a world writable share, you need to allow "others" access to the directory, and make the share sticky:
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2007-07-26 07:53 /home/samba

[samba]
        path = /home/samba
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes
        available = Yes

ok thats exactly what i needed to know thank you i think i overloaded mine with to much stuff so ill go minimal

another stupid question do i need to restart the service for the changes to "take"?


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edit gggrrrrrrr i hate samba who ever made it is a security paranoid dumb ass

Wrong... Whoever made windows was too lazy to bother with proper security. Passwords are something that should be expected, especially when sharing important files which might appear in the /root/ directory.

And yes, the service does need to be restarted (at least I think it does).

can it be restarted without rebooting the computer? rebooting takes me like 10 minutes (literally)

Samba is easy to setup if you read the smb.conf file. It show you step by step what to do. Anyway, here is a quick steps to get it up and running.

1. create an account on your linux box ---> useradd userid
2. create password for samba share ---> smbpasswd -a userid
3. go to your windows box and browser to your linux server
4. select your samba share and type in your samba userid and password
5. Of course, if your samba userid & password match your windows userid and password. Samba will not challenge you for userid and password.

As for restarting the samba, you shouldn't need to reboot your server. All you have to do is service smb restart for Fedora and Red Hat.

whats that command for debian? i tried it says "service: command not found"

problem resolved... i thank all of you for your help

what worked...

keeping smb.conf simple and clean
setting users and passes
setting proper mount points
setting permissions
listening and not being so stubborn
keeping file backups

what needs to be worked on....

having to reboot after every change
some bios problem(s)
my laziness
my patients
other stuff

once again thanks