SMB Authentication and username shortcut

Jun 22, '04 09:31:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I don't know how I didn't realize this earlier, this might be pretty obvious to everyone ... but when browsing the network on 10.3, (possibly works for all versions of MacOS X) entering a workgroup, then opening a windows share I get a dialogue to authenticate my SMB connection asking for:

I used to ask for the username attached to the computer I'm trying to get into, as the workgroup is supplied and a password is not needed most of the time. But now I realized that the username can also be the NetBIOS name that shows up when browsing computers! So Network -> WORKGROUP -> NETBIOS where NETBIOS is also the username for the authentication screen. I guess the main reason I never tried it is because OS X defaults the username to MY username. Now that I figured this out, my life is going to be so much easier.

And if I could find a way to havethe user name automatically change for me that'd be even better!

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