Blank password allowed for network shares?

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Blank password allowed for network shares? bredelet 10-03-2008
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?YnJlZGVsZXQ=?= on October 3, 2008, 11:02 am
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I would like to know if Windows XP and Vista clients can connect to a
non-Microsoft Samba server with a blank password. The server holds the users
in LDAP.

This document indicates that the users cannot log in as network users in
that case:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457059.aspx#ECAA

However I do not know if that applies to mapping drives as well.

Posted by S. Pidgorny on October 4, 2008, 11:56 pm
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You should be able to log on to the Samba resource with blank password -
the restriction you're referring to is for network access _to_ Windows.


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Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MCSE, RHCE
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bredelet wrote:
> I would like to know if Windows XP and Vista clients can connect to a
> non-Microsoft Samba server with a blank password. The server holds the users
> in LDAP.
>
> This document indicates that the users cannot log in as network users in
> that case:
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457059.aspx#ECAA
>
> However I do not know if that applies to mapping drives as well.

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