Samba: Login for share that is not available

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Problem:

While connecting to the Samba server you get a requester from the client's side asking for a login for a share that is not available, e.g. \IPC$.

Cause:

There is a security option in /etc/smb.conf. This sets up the "how" Samba clients connect to the server. There are two possibilities:

If the usernames of the client don't match the names from the server and the option "security = user" has been set (additionally if user-mapping has not been setup) this strange behaviour might occur. To surround this problem you may either change the security options or create a username map.

Solution:

Generally there are two possibilities:


Keywords: SAMBA, APPLIKATION, SOFTWARE

Categories: X Applications , Network , Other Operating Systems , Package

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