Samba and XP machines

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 20:56 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Hey Karl, You're certainly smarter than me on samba and linux in
> general and you helped me setup my first samba attempt and so did
> others.  But, I distinctly remember getting told by this list that
> username and passwd had to be the same on both machines.

My partner has an XP machine and can log in as any user she chooses. In
the file explorer choose "map network drive", then choose the "other
user" link.

> > >   Also the workgroup name must be the same on both
> > machines.
> > 
> > I think (but do not know) that this is also not true.
> > 
> This one I'm sure I right on. Had mshome on one machine and workgroup
> on another and samba wouldn't work til both has the same workgroup
> name.  Was also told by the list they had to be the same.

The workgroup on my samba server is one thing, my partner's XP machine
is something completely other, and she can mount whatever drives she
wants off my server.

> Hey Karl, straighten me out on this because what I said is exactly how
> my smb.conf is set up and it still works.

Oh, if everything is the same on XP and Samba, it will of course work! I
just mean that they do not, technically, *have* to be the same. Think
about it - people from all over a University or corporation will be in
all sorts of various workgroups, but they can all access a central samba
server...

Regards, K.

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