I configured samba.Both windows and linux not prompting for password or username.What option i have to give for prompting password.Please help me.

You have to deny guest access to the shares.

Care to explain why your question didn't fit into any of the forums like networking, Windows, applications or alternative OS?

linux:

mount -t smbfs //hostname/sharename$ /mnt/mountpoint -o username=username

you are then prompted for password.

Just use whatever you usually log in with.

on windows

start, run

\\linuxmachinename\sambasharename

username:

linuxmachinename\accountname

then password.

you can specify hostname then \ then username (i.e linuxmachinename\accountname as above) to ensure that machine's useraccounts are used.

Always turn off any zone alarm or anything when trying to test (except for external connections, of course.)

THanks for the help