XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: bill@anarchists.org   
      
   On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:30:50 +0000, Java Jive wrote:   
      
   >  > Press the down arrow and select the people allowed to access it.   
   >  > "Everyone" | Add | Read/Write | Share | Done   
   >   
   > That's a significant security hole.  Ideally, you want to restrict it to   
   > known users of your LAN regardless of device, and the best way to do   
   > that is to password-protect the share in some way.   
      
   Why do I need a password? If I can't trust my wife, then who can I trust?   
      
   > For Windows, the way I usually do this is to ensure that my Windows PCs   
   > all have the same user accounts with the same Username/Password   
   > combinations, and only allow those accounts access permissions on the   
   > shares.  This means I can simply open shares in File Explorer without   
   > being prompted for usernames & passwords.   
      
   If I have to have an account password on Windows, can I use "guest/guest"?   
   What's the Windows default "guest" or "everyone" account password anyway?   
      
   > This used to work also via Samba on Linux, as long as the passwords were   
   > the same all round, using an smbusers file to convert between Linux &   
   > Windows versions of usernames (many Linux distros won't allow uppercase   
   > in usernames), but this no longer seems to work, and now to access a   
   > Windows share from a Linux PC I have to put in a Windows account's   
   > username & password TWICE  -  an absurd & maddening fiddle-faddle!   
      
   What I don't get is why does Windows have an "everyone" or "guest" account?   
   What good are those two Windows accounts if they /require/ a password.   
      
   > Android, being based on Linux, is likely to do something similar.  If   
   > you can find out what is your Android username, you could try creating   
   > an account of that name on your Windows PC and assigning a password to   
   > it, then, if you're lucky, to connect you will only be prompted for the   
   > password.   
      
   I don't even know if Android has a username. Being Linux, it probably does.   
      
   I went into Termux. Then I typed "whoami" and it said "u0_a331" and when I   
   typed "id" it said "uid=10331(u0_a331)" and a whole bunch of other stuff.   
      
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