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SMB sharing and file security - workaround?
Authored by: chris_on_hints on May 03, '04 11:14:15AM

Dave -
I kept having all kinds of problems with authentication. It seems that windows insists on sending the username and password of the windows account (at least in XP Pro). A password box will appear when trying to access a SMB share from the XP machine. It doesnt matter if you enter the correct username/pwd combination - you still get privelage problems. It seems that windows just doesnt send the username/pwd that you type in (or at least it sends it, but in the wrong format). My solution was to use the SAME username and password on both machines. The password box never appears and you have no problems with authentication.

This is only an option for people like me with amazingly simple networks - i have a mac and a pc connected by a single cable!!

Maybe you should set up a couple of 'dummy' users on the mac to mirror the account settings on the PCs and use their home directories as shares. If you set their UID's to less than 500 they wont show up in the login window list, and they can be set up with minimum privelages etc....



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