I am a bit rusty on this sort of question, but:
Maybe you have somethings in your global section screening out visitors?
Maybe a firewall problem?
How are the visiting laptops assigned ip's and names?
Joel
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:21:14PM -0700, J. Nyhuis wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to set up a "Public" share that visitors who do not
> have accounts in our system have ro access to, while staff members
> (who do have accounts) have rw access.
> Our department has visitors who plug laptops into our network who
> will only be there once, and want to copy some of our software. However,
> with the following share definition, staff have rw access, but visitors
> can't even browse.
>
> My share definition is as follows:
>
> [public]
> comment = Filespace Everyone can Access
> path = /shares/Public/
> browseable = yes
> public = yes
> read only = yes
> write list = @staff # read only, except for people in the "staff" group
>
> What am I missing? Do I need a "guest" account at the unix level or
> something? (or would that be "Guest").
>
> Thanks in advance for the advice.
> John H. Nyhuis
> systems administration
> Cell Systems Initiative
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