samba asking for password - guest share enabled

[jas.]

I have an old laptop trying to mount a share with samba on a server. laptop and server both running ubuntu 9.04.

When I try to mount a share on the server

$ mount -t cifs //192.168.1.3/home/stuff /mnt/music

I get a password prompt, and no server passwords work. This is a guest share, and my two windows laptops mount it no problem with no password.

here's the relevant part of the smb.conf:

[Guest Share]
comment = Guest access share
path = /home/stuff/
browseable = yes
read only = no
guest ok = yes

laptop and server are on the same workgroup. any thoughts? extensive googling hasn't turned up anything.

[Rubberman]

So, are you logging in as "guest", or someone else?

[jas.]

So, are you logging in as "guest", or someone else?

I'm not logging in as anyone -- I mean, I thought the point of a guest share was that you don't have to log in, and you can just mount a shared filesystem with no usr/pwd.

That's the way it works when I connect from my windows machines. Am I wrong?

[Rubberman]

Try mounting with the option -o user=guest

[jas.]

thanks rubberman, but still getting a password prompt. i've switched over to sshfs, which prompts me for a password, but at least the password works.... doesn't seem to affect things that the server is sharing the same directory via sshfs and samba, so i'm gonna go with it for now.

thanks again.