[CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

Tue May 27 23:51:33 UTC 2008
Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk>

MHR wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher at ias.com.hk> wrote:
>> Do they should up if you run the command below in the Linux host?
>>
>> smbclient -L //localhost
>>
> I'm guessing you meant "show up" and yes, everything looks normal, but
> only if I use a -U option with a known user.  Is there a way to allow
> printer access without a user login?

Try adding 'guest ok = yes' to the printer share configuration.

> 
>> Not even the home share? Have you created a machine account for the XP
>> guest?
> 
> Not sure what a "machine account" is - there is a user account on the
> host that has the same user name and password as the one on the guest.

...I think you need to pick a bit more on Windows networking...more 
reading of the books/documentation provided with samba should help.