Samba and XP Question

Kenneth E. Lussier klussier at sentito.com
Tue May 18 10:24:05 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:06, Ed Lawson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:42:55 -0400
> Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yep.  You have to give a username and password at login time.  By
> > default, that is what is sent to Samba.  If it doesn't work, then
> > you're prompted for a password, which is why it doesn't autoconnect.
> 
> Being XP illiterate, I have a follow up question.  How do you configure
> XP to require asking for a password when you first log on to the
> machine?  Or can you?

You have to go into control panel -> user accounts -> "change an
account" -> set a password.

FYI,
Kenny

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