Samba and XP Question

[Dan Jenkins]

Ed Lawson wrote:

>  On 18 May 2004 10:20:23 -0400 "Kenneth E. Lussier"
>  <klussier at sentito.com> wrote:
>
> > You have to go into control panel -> user accounts -> "change an
> > account" -> set a password.
>
>  Been there, done that. Does not help. Still refuses to connect
>  until a user name and password are given a second time to connect to
>  shared drive. Then all is OK. Adding a password to the user account
>  does not require giving it when the machine starts to be logged in as
>  a given user on these XP boxes.

Is the username / password the same on the XP system as on the Samba system?
If they differ you will be prompted. If they are the same you shouldn't 
be. Having
said that, I have had oddities with XP connecting to non-XP systems 
(including
Windows NT 4.0 & Windows 9x, as well as Samba). Since I have so few XP
systems at present, I've not taken the time to nail down the problem. 
The behavior
is similar. Randomly prompting for username/password information which 
it should
know to connect automatically.

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