Guest accounts with security = user

[Buchan Milne]

look at the "map to guest"

I think our printserver is set to
map to guest = bad user

Buchan

Eric Delaet wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am migrating from a Win NT server to a samba server with the security =
> user option.
> 
> Everything is working great. But I need a central directory for every user
> (a "guest share), also for people who are not yet registered on the
> machine.
> 
> The "guest account = guest" is specified in the global section of smb.conf
> (the guest account exists in the unix password file), and the "guest ok"
> parameter is set in the share.
> 
> However, when users who don't have an account (yet) on the machine, they
> don't see the public share, but they get a window with "login" and
> "password".
> 
> Is it possible to fall back on a guest account with security = share?
> 
> 
> TIA
> Eric
> 
>