On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Phill wrote:
> After searching hi and lo I came across an entry in a forum archive:
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/077746.html
>
> That basically says I have to add the machine as a user to my server, add
> that user to a samba account and then set that user as a machine trust
> account in samba.
>
> Now being an infant in terms of my administration skills. I don't know if
> this is the only way or not..... but it works
Well it's probably the better way. Here's another not so great way. I had
a site where they just wanted anybody to be able to print whether logged
in or not, there were no file shares (the shares were on another server
accross a VPN). I solved this by not having any local samba users and
using the 'map to guest = bad user' option in the /etc/samba/smb.conf
file. So the issue lies in the choice of username the Windows client uses
to connect to the samba server. Oh yeah... the [printers] section had
public access too.
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