The valid users = %S option is what is causing for a password to be asked for.<br><br>Are you using this option on the file shares as well?<br><br>On some system you may also need statement similar to below. I do not use Fedora so not sure what vliad mount path would be.<br><br>root prexec = /bin/mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom<br>
root postexec = /bin/umount /media/cdrom<br>
<br><br>May help if you posted full config file, if still issues<br><br><font face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif" size="2"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"><strong>From</strong>: Daniel Tweedy <daniel.tweedy@gmail.com><br><strong>Sent</strong>: 24 May 2008 08:00<br><strong>To</strong>: nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><strong>Subject</strong>: [Nelug] Sharing CD-ROM over Samba on Fedora 9</font><br><br>Hi All,<br><br>I was just wondering if any of you have any experience of sharing a <br>cd-rom over samba, i'm not having very much luck in getting it working <br>you see, have googled and search a lot and I think I am very close to <br>getting it working, but am kinda stuck as to what else I could do from <br>where I am, so I am really looking for a few pointers/tips/ideas.<br><br>[cdrom]<br>comment = CD-ROM<br>path = /cdrom<br>writable = no<br>locking = no<br>public = yes<br>read only = yes<br>valid users = %S<br><br>This is what i'm using at the moment and it shows up on the windows pc <br>but it asks for a password when I try to connect, but none of the users <br>set up on the box or in the smbpasswd file work and root doesn't work <br>either, it just keeps poping up asking for the password again no matter <br>what I try.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Daniel.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nelug mailing list - Nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nelug<br>http://www.nelug.org.uk/<br><br>