Samba networking, needs password or not?

[AC Perdon]

On 12/22/05, Giorgos <pinkisntwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have set a directory to be shared in my samba server and I was trying
> to access it from another ubuntu box on the network. It was asking for a
> password, I gave my ubuntu password but it wouldn't accept it. In
> #ubuntu I found out that you have to create a user and assign him a
> password with smbpasswd. But another user told me that he had the same
> problem and he mapped a drive directly using \\192.168.0.x/sharename (or
> something) and it worked without password.
>
> Isn't this insecure? What was the point in asking for a password in the
> first place?


Yes you have to create a password for your samba user using 'smbpasswd -a
<user>', and its much secure if you have passwords for your server. Try
reading Samba as PDC.

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