[Nottingham] Back to my network questions...

[Mike Cardwell]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, David Aldred wrote:

> But... if I try to open nwfiles from PC1, I'm asked for a password to
> log on as lap/Guest.  (I don't think the capitalisation is significant -
> Windows just does that to anything).  Whatever I put in the password
> box, I just get the password request back again.
>
> (Apart from go to bed and see if it's all a lot clearer tomorrow!).

Type "man smbpasswd" from the command line. Read the whole thing,
specifically the "-n" option which describes null passwords. Hope that
helps.

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