Guest account????
Karyn Joseph
josephk at std.teradyne.com
Thu Sep 13 14:23:02 GMT 2001
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
> > ________________________________________________
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> 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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