At Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:57:28 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 11:48 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > I changed the Samba security mode from share to user and added a couple > > of users to allow some writable shares. Now the MS-Windows machines are > > insisting on a username/password to access the *anonymous* (guest ok = > > yes) printers and the one read-only public file system. How do I fix > > this? Do I *have* to configure a real-live guest user? Is there a way to > > allow some file systems anonymous access *without* a username/pasword > > and some file system write access with a username/password? Or is > > mess-windows too stupid to handle this? > > I assume you have mapped guest to a valid user account on the Samba > server?
Yes: 'nobody'. I changed the security mode back to 'share' and this seems to have settled MS-Windows... > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database [email protected] -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
