Guest account????

[Karyn Joseph]

Thanks,

I upgraded from 1.9.18.

Even though it didn't show in the Global section,
it did show in the SWAT gui screen.  That must be
because default is user.

I think I'm just going to downgrade again.

Karyn

Herb Lewis wrote:
> 
> You didn't say what version of Samba you had before. My
> gue4ss is that is was 2.0.x or before. Please check out
> What's new file when you upgrade. The default setting for
> "security="  changed. Since you did not specify this
> in you smb.conf, you probably were running security=share
> before and now you are running security=user.
> 
> Karyn Joseph wrote:
> >
> > Hi --
> >
> > 1.  Before I upgraded to version 2.2.1 my users were
> > able to access the server without entering a
> > password.  They only had to enter their password
> > whenever they tried to access the share.  Just
> > like connecting to any other NT server.  Now
> > when someone connects to \\servername they are
> > immediately prompted for a password.  Any ideas?
> >
> > 2.  Another closely related issue (I think) is
> > that my customers also used to be able to access
> > a certain share that has "guest allow = Yes"
> > without passing.  Now it asks for a password.
> >
> > Here are my [Global] and guest share entries:
> >
> > [global]
> >         workgroup = DOMAIN
> >         netbios name = NAME
> >         server string = Samba %v on (%L)
> >         min passwd length = 6
> >         log level = 1
> >         log file = /net/adm/samba/samba.log.%L
> >         local master = No
> >         wins server = 131.101.208.195
> >         homedir map = u_auto
> >         NIS homedir = Yes
> >         hosts allow = ###.###.
> >
> > [wirelist]
> >         comment = Xwire directory
> >         path = /net/wirelist
> >         read only = No
> >         writeable = Yes
> >         create mask = 0664
> >         guest ok = Yes
> >         guest only = Yes
> >
> > --
> > ________________________________________________
> > Karyn Joseph                   EIT - Agoura, CA
> > UNIX Administrator             818/874-6116
> > ________________________________________________
> 
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> Herb Lewis                               Silicon Graphics
> Networking Engineer                      1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510
> Strategic Software Organization          Mountain View, CA  94043-1351
> herb at sgi.com                             Tel: 650-933-2177
> http://www.sgi.com                       Fax: 650-932-2177
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Karyn Joseph   		       EIT - Agoura, CA
UNIX Administrator	       818/874-6116
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