solved (was - smb access problem)

solved (was - smb access problem)

Guy Gold guy at the-golds.us
Fri Mar 16 17:32:03 IST 2012


on Friday, March 16, 2012, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > When I access smb://10.0.0.138 from Firefox, I can see the files on
> > the USB
> > disk. But when I try the same thing from Dolphin, Krusader or
> > Konqueror I'm
> > asked for a username and password. I discovered that if I enter user
> > as the
> > username and no password, I can reach the files, but I don't
> > understand why
> > I needed to enter the user in Dolphin, or how I can change this.

Can it be that Firefox has the username cached ?
What if you remove all saved UID's and passwords, will
FF still login with no UID needed ?

On Fri,Mar 16 03:54:PM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> OK - I continued playing around and discovered a solution (although
> I'm not
> sure I understand why it works).
>
> Instead of smb://10.0.0.138 or smb://10.0.0.1 I tried
> smb://user@10.0.0.138 and smb://user@10.0.0.1 and now I'm not being
> asked for
> a password.

Essentially you're doing the same thing.

-- 

Guy Gold





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