Re: Fixing SMB browsing

[Mattias Eriksson <snaggen acc umu se>]

tor 2006-02-23 klockan 10:56 +0100 skrev Alexander Larsson:
> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 09:49 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >         
> >         > The basic requirement is that the user only gets prompted
> >         for
> >         > authentication when absolutely necessary.
> >         
> >         Seems like a reasonable goal.
> 
> I just glanced over your mail, and I saw this. I'm not sure this is a
> reasonable goal at all. A very common situation is that you have a share
> that allows anonymous read-only access, but if you actually log in
> correctly you can write too. With the strategy you describe above you
> would never get prompted for a username in this case, and thus you would
> never be able to log in to get write access to the share.

I think that with that strategy you should be prompted for
authentication when you tries to write to the share in your exampel
above.

//Snaggen