SAMBA Noobie

Hi,

I am very new to this, so please bear with me...

I have set up a SAMBA share which seems to work fine when I set Guest OK = Yes. When I change that to NO, I get prompted for a password. This is obviously what I want, but it automatically sets this user as tmpuser, and I have no clue as to what the password is for that! Please can you let me know where I can find\set this user's credentials? Is it in the Global area of the smb.conf? If so, what is the syntax?


Thanks in advance

 

For information, I am using Share Level security

 

Did you have a look at this tutorial? http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10

 

Hi Falko, thanks for replying. I have followed the How To and added a user to the linux and samba databases. However, still when I connect to the share from an XP machine, it prompts me for a password, but with the username as tmpuser which is greyed out. Any idea how I get it to prompt for the user as well?

 

What's in your smb.conf?

 

It is literally just the following:

[global]
workgroup = davey
security = share

[homes]
path = /home/ftp/homes
read only = no
writeable = yes
guest ok = no
browseable = no