Hi,

I have a very great stuff at home called WDTV Live Media server. This is a
linux based machine offering some media services to the local network. Also
offering external drives as shares unfortunately only with anonymous access

I think because os security reasons this is disabled in linux (great idea
:)), so I can access this external drive only from windows

the error message when I try to use for example smbtree as the follows

Server requested LANMAN password (share-level security) but 'client lanman
auth' is disabled
failed tcon_X with NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

If I issue the same command with the -N parameter it is working fine

 \\WDTVLIVE                      WDTV LIVE
                \\WDTVLIVE\IPC$                 IPC Service (WDTV LIVE)
                \\WDTVLIVE\Laca_WD_Terra_1      Laca_WD_Terra_1

But it is not working neither from dolphin, smb4k, or from mount.cifs

how can I instruct these programs to use "anonymous" login first or at least
try to use it if authentication is not succeed

My samba version is

[I] net-fs/samba
     Available versions:  3.0.37!t 3.0.37-r1!t (~)3.2.15!t (~)3.2.15-r1!t
3.4.6!t 3.4.8!t (~)3.5.3!t (~)3.5.4!t [M](~)4.0.0_alpha11!m {acl addns ads
aio async automount avahi caps cifsupcall +client cluster cups debug doc dso
examples fam gnutls ipv6 kernel_linux ldap ldb +netapi oav pam (+)python
quota quotas (+)readline selinux +server +smbclient smbsharemodes sqlite
swat syslog threads +tools
winbind}

     Installed versions:  3.5.4!t(11.52.56 2010-08-18)(acl addns ads aio
avahi caps client cups fam ldap netapi pam readline server smbclient syslog
winbind -cluster -debug -doc -examples -ldb -quota -smbsharemodes
-swat)
     Homepage:            http://www.samba.org/
     Description:         Samba Server component



Thank you
Laszlo