Here's my smb.conf file:


My goal is to force users to login with the guest username and password, which i created with the slackware adduser command, and also added with smbpasswd -a guest, and i gave it the same password for the linux user and the samba user.

additionally, I only want write access with a login that only I know, gsgleaso. I created the linux user and samba user similarly.

My issue is that when I access the share from my winxp box, it prompts me fore username and password, but it will not work, saying it's not accessible and that I may not have the appropriate permissions.

help! If this is totally wrong for my goal, please advise.

[EDIT] okay this is weird. if, from windows, I hit start, run, and type \\<ip address of server>\movies then it seems to work.

if i type \\<netbios name of server>\movies then it doesn't work. any thoughts?

okay I found the problem. stupid windows.

I had to right click on my network places and disconnect network drive (even though none were mapped, it created mappings when you connect via network neighborhood and remembers the settings) and remove all instances of this share. it then started behaving as i suspected it should.

reading the man page for smb.conf actually helps! yay!