Re: samba problems

[peloy@ven.ra.rockwell.com]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:

> However, now 95 users have to supply their network password once,
> which is undesirable. Once entered it seems happy enough, but I would
> prefer that those users didn't have to enter a password.
> 
> Any suggestions for a solution?

And what about setting the password for those users in /etc/smbpasswd
to be blank? Does that work?

I have just checked smb.conf's man page and it looks like you have to
add:

null passwords=yes

to the global section of your smb.conf, as this parameter defaults to
"no".

Good luck!

Eloy.-

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Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation Venezuela
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