On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 10:16 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 17:53 -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote: > > > Am I correct in thinking this would make all shares have the same > > password as the guest user, or do you mean there really is no password > > at all, or alternatively that one would specify the share, provide > > it's password and be logged on as guest??? > > > > It's been a while since I had a security=share setup, but I remember > > WfW clients thinking that they had per-share passwords... > > In the past, Samba tried to match the 'per share' password provided by > the client against a list of users, falling back to guest if 'guest ok = > yes' was set on the share. > > What will happen now is that the password will be ignored, and only the > 'guest ok' will be checked, and access will be as guest.
This in effect means dropping security = share, can't we just effectively drop it instead of deceiving our users and making them believe they are using it ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[email protected]> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
