GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 355572
winxp asks for user and password when connecting to samba
Last modified: 2007-12-26 02:07:23 UTC
A simple checkbox saying "Allow people from the same workgroup to access my shares" in this screen http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/659_or/50.png would be enought. Other information: That was confirmed as a bug in Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/51344
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319390 ***