Samba Problem / Can't access windows shared folders

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Hello! I’m a new openSUSE user and I need your help.
In our office network we have windows machines with public shared folders for “Everyone” like this:
http://www.techotopia.com/images/3/33/Windows_server_2008_share_properties.jpg
So any windows user can access this folder without providing any username and password. We have also Mac machines and they can access these folders without any problem as well. But I (beeing the only openSUSE / Linux user in our office) can’t access these folders. I allowed samba client/server and netbios server services in my openSUSE firewall. I can see the list of computers in dolphin, but when I try to open one of these computers I get dialog which asks me for username and password. I can’t figure out why this happens, becouse I know for sure this computer have public shared folder which is accessable for other computers in our network except for me :\

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I would suggest it is worth checking out threads https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/517234-Samba-update-now-requires-authentication-for-Windows-10-machine-access and https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/517316-Issue-with-Samba-4-2-4-15-1-net-rap-server-domain-S-lt-your_master_browser-gt-command-fails this last one does affect Tumbleweed as well as Leap.

Stuart

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thank you for reply, I checked out your links and realized that it’s a samba bug, so I have no choise other than just waiting for new samba updates…

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I hate to resurrect an old thread but I have not seen anything recent about this problem. In addition to my linux box I have a Windows 7 box and a Windows 10 box. I am currently using openSUSE 13.2 with samba version frozen at 4.1.12 because any updates to this, as with the versions that come with Leap and with Tumbleweed, lead to a request to open a shared folder on either of the Windows boxes asking for a username and password. By using the old version of samba on 13.2 I am able to access the windows shares without supplying a username or a password. I thought that by now this problem would have been resolved but after installing Tumbleweed today I see that it has not—unless there is a workaround to fix it? Otherwise I am stuck on 13.2.

By the way, the windows machines are able to access the linux machine without any issues with no matter what version of samba.

So—have I missed the workaround along the way?