Bryan Sant wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:15:29 -0700, Kenneth Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although setting "security=user" does make it so I can specify a user,
it also disables the general guest browsing as well. If I try to browse
to "\\linux" it asks for a password, same with if I try to access the
guest share "\\linux\share". So although this fixes one problem, it
creates another.
Not true. You should still be able to browse with the guest account
so long as guest has his samba password set to be blank. Check your
/etc/samba/smbusers file. There should be a mapping between a UNIX
accound and a samba account for guest. In my case its the nobody
account. Switch that username out with a local Linux account that you
want to use for guest access (I think the nobody account is a poor
choice). So do the following:
useradd smbguest
passwd smbguest
<choose whatever Linux password you want for the account>
smbpasswd -a smbguest
<make sure the password is blank/null>
sed -i 's/nobody/smbguest/g' /etc/samba/smbusers
/etc/init.d/smb restart
Now test things locally: smbclient -L //localhost -U guest
Just hit enter when prompted for a password. All should be well. Now
test from a freshly rebooted windows machine.
-Bryan
I will try that tonight, and see if it works.
Thanks,
Kenneth
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