[PLUG] SAMBA and windoze boxes...

[Guillermo Moyna <g.moyna@usip.edu>]

Dear All,

This question is kind of removed from LINUX and it's more related to 
windoze stupidity.

I have a LINUX box with a SAMBA file server running. I am using a 
very vanilla smb.conf file that allows me to share the user 
directories and some of their data directories when they connect to 
the server from their office machines.

Now, I have a Mac in my office running DAVE (which gives Mac users 
access to windoze networks and printers), and things work perfectly: 
when I select the SAMBA server, I'm asked for a username and a 
password, and when I supply them, I can get my files (duh).

Now, when you use the real deal, i.e., a windoze machine, things 
don't work that great. First, when you select the SAMBA server from 
the servers in the 'Neighborhood Network' you are not asked for a 
username, only a password. Thus, you cannot get to the files. The 
problem is that normal users of windoze machines log in to the 
'Neighborhood Network' with some stupid user name supplied by IT 
(something like your initials and the last four # of your SSN), 
which, obviously, does not match the UNIX usernames.

I tried giving a 'guest ok = yes' and 'guest account = someaccount' 
to the SAMBA smb.conf file, and things do work, but there is no 
security whatsoever. I don't want to do this in our setting, because 
all students/faculty/staff can access the files.

Do any of you working in windoze/LINUX mixed environments know how to 
get around this problem (which to me is due to windoze's inherent 
idiocy)?

TIA

Guillermo
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