Samba issues with XP

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:04:10 -0400, Josh Pollak
<pardsbane at offthehill.org> wrote:
> [global]
> guest account = unknown

Is unknown a user on your machine? I use "nobody" on my box, and it works great.

Gordon
(note relevant part of man smb.conf below)
-- 
Gordon Marx
gcmarx at alumni.virginia.edu


guest account (G)

    This is a username which will be used for access to services which
are specified as guest ok (see below). Whatever privileges this user
has will be available to any client connecting to the guest service.
This user must exist in the password file, but does not require a
valid login. The user account "ftp" is often a good choice for this
parameter.

    On some systems the default guest account "nobody" may not be able
to print. Use another account in this case. You should test this by
trying to log in as your guest user (perhaps by using the su -
command) and trying to print using the system print command such as
lpr(1) or lp(1).

    This parameter does not accept % macros, because many parts of the
system require this value to be constant for correct operation.

    Default: guest account = nobody # default can be changed at compile-time

    Example: guest account = ftp