On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 17:22 +0000, Chris G wrote: > I am trying to connect to several shares on my Fedora 8 system as > different users from a Windows XP system. > > I can't get the "Connect using a different user name" from XP to work > at all. I can only ever connect as the user I'm logged on to the XP > system as. I want to connect as a different user to one particular > share so I don't have to open up the write permissions. > > Has anyone else used this and got it to work? > > When I try "Connect using a different user name" I enter a valid samba > user and password but it always fails and asks for the user name and > password again. Even if I enter the user name that I already am in > the boxes it fails. Does the user name need some sort of domain > prefix or something? ---- samba by default uses security = user which by current Windows standards means that a workstation can connect to this particular server with only 1 identity. Thus if you are already connected to a share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\foo, you cannot connect to a different share as DOMAIN|WORKGROUP\bar the 'security = share' concept emulates the Windows 95/98 sharing concept where each share connection can be a different user but that is essentially obsolete and should be avoided if possible. Craig
