SOLVED Password fro Windows to VL7.2

[StrayBit]

Was unable to get my USB dongle to work, I dug out an old WAP attached via ethernet cable and remoted to my qwest WAP.  Linux has been assigned an ip address and I can ping my windows machine and vice-versa but no internet.

Since Samba no longer allows

security share

, I have been unable to connect to my linux pc. I have set smb.conf to map guests to guestpc and

useradd guestpc

When I try to connect using guestpc (which windows changes to BRUCE-PC/guestpc).  I've tried leaving the password blank as well as my passwords on Linux.

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password

Any suggestions?

[nightflier]

Never tried that kind of setup.. have you tried command "smbpasswd -a <username>" and enter a blank password?

[StrayBit]

using smbpasswd, guestpc without a password does not work!  bruce with a password works but I can only access my home account!  Until I removed the Force User in Samba.config.
Thanks, Nightflier.

Oh! And changing a parameter in the repeater allowed my to access internet.