autologin into linux box through smb

[h3xis]

i have a fileserver (linux) set up that uses samba to talk to the rest of the network. i have a username set up specifically so that the people in my house can access/store crap on the server. what i want to do is have it set up so that all a windows user has to do is open up "my network places", double click on the fileserver host, and it take them straight to the share without having to supply a username and password...much like the way it works between windows xp machines. is this possible or is it designed so that a user must have a username and pass to be able to use the resources on the linux box for security reasons?

ps. i'm using SWAT to configure the server

i've fixed that problem now by setting the security to "share". however, i have a new problem. the windows boxes see the linux server as a share now, and for about 5 minutes i was able to go straight into the linux server without any authentication. now whenever i get on one of the computers running windows and try to view the share it asks for some weird authentication. i tried to connect to it from my linux box and i get the same thing.

so basically i'm back where i started from...it's just a little bit different.

Edited February 4, 2006 by h3xis

[David Scaife]

This guide might help you. It may be helpful to post the contents of your Samba configuration file if it doesn't. I have no experience with SWAT, so I'm hoping it's not the only method you have of configuring your server (or, alternatively, that you can do this via SWAT). Edited February 5, 2006 by David Scaife

[h3xis]

oh my god thank you. thanks to you, i now see what a POS SWAT is. i used to edit my smb.conf files through vim back a long time ago until i heard about SWAT and it server its purpose for user logins. ugh, guess it's better to do everything yourself then.

[David Scaife]

Nice one :)

I have found that graphical and other (e.g. web-based) interfaces never really compare to manually editing your configuration files. These interfaces may have the odd useful feature, but in the end, manual editing is generally a lot more flexible and powerful. It may be ugly at first, but once you get used to it, there's no stopping you :p

That said, this wasn't what I was trying to get at in my previous post, though it did have overtones of this notion; I just thought I would comment on it, now that you've said that.