[Samba] Guest shares in an ADS security model

Madhusudan Singh singh.madhusudan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 13:41:55 MDT 2010


Yes. I guess this is a question about whether share-wise security models can
be specified.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 October 2010 19:36, Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Ok.
> >
> > In my mind, guest access should be just that - no authentication.
>
> Well, I believe that it is.  But that you need to enable the Guest
> account in AD for it to be allowed.
>
> I might be wrong, of course, but I think that's how it works.
>
> What you want to do is bypass AD for one print share.  Maybe that's
> possible, but I don't know.
>
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 21 October 2010 20:54, Madhusudan Singh <singh.madhusudan at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I have no control over the active directory. I just authenticate a
> subset
> >> of
> >> > its members to give them access to the fileserver.
> >> >
> >> > Does this mean that there is no true guest access when using ADS ?
> >>
> >> I do not know enough about AD to answer your question.
>
> --
> Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
>


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