Bug 106286

Summary:	Can't log in to samba share with "user = nobody" in share definition.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Tim Hutt <tdhutt>
Component:	smb	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Tim Hutt 2005-05-25 18:31:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi I have a share with the following definition:

[private]
comment = A comment.
path = /a/path
guest ok = no
guest only = no
writable = no
printable = no
available = yes
browseable = yes
user = nobody

I set nobody's password using 'smbpasswd nobody' as root.

Then access the share in konqueror with smb://myserver/private

I get the authentication dialog as expected. Until recently it used to be that I could put anything *except a blank username* and the correct password and it would work. With a blank username authentication would fail for some reason.

Since upgrading to KDE 3.4 (I think it was that), nothing works now. I can still log in properly with smbclient.

Also, minor point, but window correctly detects that the username doesn't matter (well shouldn't matter anyway) and greys out the field. Could this be added to kio_smb?

Comment 1 Dawit Alemayehu 2013-08-18 23:19:27 UTC

KDE 3 is no longer maintained. Feel free to reopen the ticket if the problem is still applicable in the current stable KDE 4 version. Thank you for your report.