A bug maybe; Write list access to Read only share; security = share?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Tony Gaddis wrote:

| Now, it seems to me that the 'map to guest', which is
| set by default, never, is a bit of a kludge, because I would
| have expected that since the Guest account is typically set
| by default to a known user typically in smb.conf; a
| non authenticated user should have been automatically
| mapped in security = user mode.  Why else have a Guest
| account if this is not so?

It's trickier than this due to protocol issues.

| Foolish me, I started with 2nd Edition Samba, which by
| the way only mentions "map to guest" in the Configuration
| Appendix and neglects its mention at all

That's being updated now.






cheers, jerry
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