Tim Bates wrote:
Dexter Filmore wrote:
Wanna share a dir to win clients so that they can just map it locally without providing any password or login or whatsover.
So far I'm at:

[foo]
        path = /mnt/foo
        guest ok = Yes
        security = share
        public = yes
        writable = yes
        force user = dexter

Still won't work, asks for auth.


Try it without the force user line. It's probably forcing everyone to use that username, which then requires a password.
Also, check the actual filesystem permissions if you haven't already.

TB

I don't believe that force user would be a problem, it doesn't affect the username used for auth, only the effective UID when accessing the file system.

Security = share should be a global option rather than inside the share definition (actually IMHO "security = share" shouldn't be anywhere, you should use user level security). I'm assuming you don't have security = share defined in the global section as well, in which case you are probably using user level security at the moment.

If you use user level security, you will need a map to guest line, probably something like "map to guest = bad user" although you may need "bad password" if your clients have the same username as the server and still want guest access.

Also public and guest ok are the same thing, it won't hurt having them both, but it's pointless.

If setting up your security/map to guest properly doesn't fix it, post your entire smb.conf (minus comments) as well as something showing the file system permissions for /mnt/foo.

-- Michael Heydon

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