There is a setting somewhere on the XP system that fixes that issue. Damned if i can remember what it is at the moment. But it would help to take a quick glance at your smb.conf file if you would like to send it on. Are you trying to use the userid and password of an existing account on your linux system? If not try that and see if it helps. I know that I have to have an account on the llinux box that matches the one I am trying to log on with in order to hook up. Keith On 05:10 PM, Sina Bahram wrote: > Ok then, I think it still might be a permission error maybe. Something > to do with the way you have set it up, but I haven't used that package > much. I hope someone else on here will have some better ideas. > > Take care, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Rejean Proulx > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:25 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Help With Samba > > > That would be quite a flaw because I sit there supplying a password and > never get in. If it was that kind of flaw then it wouldn't work at all > and I suspect it would have been discovered. > > Rejean Proulx > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com > Ham License VA3REJ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:14 PM > Subject: RE: Help With Samba > > > > This is only a guess, but it might be a flaw in that Windows XP is > > trying to access or ask you for a password for every single individual > > > file and subdirectory it encounters? I have no clue how you would go > > about fixing the problem if this were the case, but I just wanted to > > offer that as a possibility. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Sina > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] > > On Behalf Of Rejean Proulx > > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:32 PM > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Help With Samba > > > > > > I need help. I configure Samba and when I access it with Windows XP, > > the first time it asks me for a user ID. I set one up so I enter it > > and it happily lists resources for me which are a few folders and a > > printer folder. When I select a folder it asks me for a user ID again. > > > It doesn't not bring forward the one I enter previously, so I figure > > that is stupid so I supply it. after that it asks again, and again, > > and again, and again, until I quit. > > > > Windows is a little different. It does the same thing except that it > > tells me that it is unable to match credentials. It is interesting > > that I can get as far as the list of folders. > > > > If I close it and go back in using Windows XP, it doesn't ask me for > > the user ID again before listing the folders because if has obviously > > remembered. When I select a folder, the loop comes. It asks again, > > and again, and again. > > > > Here is how I have the folders set up. I tried turning off the > > encryption but that makes it worse. When I do that, I can't even get > > to the list of folders. Here is how it is set up. > > > > [web] > > comment = Web Files > > path = /var/www > > valid users = @users > > force group = users > > read only = No > > create mask = 0770 > > directory mask = 0770 > > guest ok = Yes > > > > > > > > > > Rejean Proulx > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com > > Ham License VA3REJ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Keith Watson kwatson at smed.yi.org Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace
