Hi all,

could someone on this list please give some advice on how to establish
non guest access to Samba/iX shares? Guest access works fine for me so
far. I don't even have problems with browsing. The Samba/iX server
ALWAYS shows up in the "connect network drive" dialogbox under WfWg and
in the Network Neighborhood of Windows 95 as well as NT 4.0.
If I try to connect to a share which has "guest ok = no" the server asks
for a password for that share, even if there are no passwords (for
user/group/account). And if there are passwords, they are always
rejected. The share is defined as follows:

[vegu]
comment = serves /GUSSNM/VEGU (writeable)
path = /GUSSNM/VEGU
guest ok = no
write ok = yes

Am I right that this could be a problem of user mapping between Windows
logonname and MPE/iX username? I was playing around a little with a
"username map = /usr/local/samba/lib/users.map" entry in the global
section of smb.conf, tried adding a "user = " or "valid users =" line in
the service definition, all with no success. :(

The host is on MPE/iX 5.5, SMBD is running under inetd.

TIA

Andreas Baronick

PS: As a user of HP's NewWave I would appreciate the filename mapping
for the Samba server Lars announced in one of his postings! NewWave's
object storage facility uses # signs in filenames, which are not allowed
in posix.