Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 22:37:38 Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 3-26-2008 2:22 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: >> >>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:50:46 John wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for posting the config file but comparing it to mine I see >>>> nothing wrong. I am going to do a clean install of the server and start >>>> over with Cent OS 5.1. It use to be a RHEL updated to centos maybe >>>> that's the reason for the problems??? >>>> >>> Nope - mine was a clean install. In the morning I'll do a compare with >>> my settings, but I use a very simplified [global] as recommended for my >>> situation in Samba 3 by Example, so many of those settings will not be >>> there. With any luck I might find one that helps. >>> >>> Anne >>> >> Have you both made sure that your xp clients aren't using simple file >> sharing? That disables credential passing and instead passes guest with no >> password. >> So are you saying that one should disable simple file sharing in Windows? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg