> How do you get windows to access a share as a guest? But what's a "guest"? Is that someone logging in with a blank username? Or is it someone logging in with the username "Guest" and a blank password? Or is it any unknown username regardless of the password?
> - Windows by default tries to login to a share with its current > username/password Correct, so if you allow your existing users to access all the "guest" shares, it shouldn't matter who they connect as. > - Windows opens a login/password box for user As it does when you connect as an invalid username or password, or the account you're connecting as doesn't have enough access. Grant the connecting user access if you don't want the login box to appear. > - There is no way to force windows to connect as a guest But Windows asks you for a username to connect as, just log in with the "Guest" username (isn't that how Windows itself works? Don't people always tell you to disable the Guest account on a new Windows installation for this reason?) > 2. "map to guest" option to default failed logins to guest. > #2 is viable, however i've found users' often end up logged in as > guest when they intended to login as a user. this is a severely > suboptimal hack. I guess it's up to how you define your guest account. If you create an account called Guest and give it a blank password, then people can log in as this guest account or their own account by typing in the appropriate username, and there shouldn't be any mix up. If you were hoping for an easy solution where people don't have to log in at all to access the guest shares, then you'll have to make sure all your legitimate users have access to the appropriate guest shares too, then use one of the 'map to guest' options. I'm not aware of any other way of doing it. > the nub of the issue is that /Windows/ needs some way of being able to > connect as guest. Since Microsoft use an actual Guest account I expect their method is related to that (whether you have to log in as a Guest, or invalid accounts are automatically mapped to guest I don't know. Perhaps trying to connect to an XP box with the Guest account enabled might tell you.) I think you'll have to use a 'map to guest' option with Samba, that's really the only way having things "just work" (assuming, as you say, that people don't accidentally log themselves on as a guest.) Cheers, Adam. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba