[linux-cifs-client] Guess login option BROKEN in Samba 3.0.22? (Fedore Core 5)

[Igor Chudov]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:53:05AM -0400, eflorac at intellique.com wrote:
> On Tue, April 11, 2006 10:25, Igor Chudov wrote:
> > I am very frustrated.
> >
> > I have a few "guest only" samba shares, exported from linux
> > boxes. For example, I have a read only share with guest only access.
> >
> > I used to mount them just fine with a fstab entry like this:
> >
> > //manifold/torrents /torrents   smbfs ro,user,auto,username=,password=,
> > 0 0
> 
> As a workaround, you could add
> 
> map to guest = Guest
> 
> in your samba server configuration Global section. This way, invalid users
> will be accepted as "guests".

Thanks. I just sibscribed to this list, and for some reason list
messages do not reach my computer. Thanks for Cc-ing your message to
me. 

I appreciate your suggestion. For home (where I only need read only
access), I simply created a new user account smbuser 20 minutes ago. 

For another situation where I need read/write access (and thusly to
map users to the same unix userid as the guest account), my approach
would not work.

As for that Map statement, it is a nice one. 

But can you tell me, is the new Samba broken? What is going on? Is
this a known problem? Is anyone working on it?

I will appreciate a Cc: as mailing list messages seem to be lost. 

Thank you!

i