On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:14:01AM -0000, Simon Ruggier wrote:
> The gnome tools are simple, but they are completely useless for sharing
> with windows machines until the security model is changed from "user" to
> "share" in smb.conf. Otherwise, there is an impassable password prompt
> whenever a user on a windows machine tries to access a samba share.
> It's been like this for at least the last 3 releases of Ubuntu, and I
> keep having to figure out what to change in smb.conf whenever I get
> bitten by this issue, which is at least twice now.
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:14:01AM -0000, Simon Ruggier wrote:
> The gnome tools are simple, but they are completely useless for sharing
> with windows machines until the security model is changed from "user" to
> "share" in smb.conf. Otherwise, there is an impassable password prompt
> whenever a user on a windows machine tries to access a samba share.
> It's been like this for at least the last 3 releases of Ubuntu, and I
> keep having to figure out what to change in smb.conf whenever I get
> bitten by this issue, which is at least twice now.
This is already tracked in bug 32067.
status incomplete