Guest Account - was Re: Samba 2.0.3 on OpenVMS

[John E. Malmberg]

The UCX$NOBODY account or equivalent is only created by UCX or TCPIP 
services if you enable the specific services that require it.

I do not know about the third party TCPIP programs.

Samba only needs it for Windows NT or later clients, and that really is 
a bug, because it really should be mapping it to an internal account, 
the access is not really a guest access.

The default name of the GUEST account is hard coded into the SMBD 
executable, but it can also be specified in the SMB.CONF file.

For SAMBA 2.0.6, I chose the name of SAMBA__GUEST (with two 
underscores).  The installation procedure creates it if it is missing.

Martin Vorlaender is right that you can designate what ever account that 
you want as the guest account.  The only requirements are that it needs 
to have write access to it's own home directory and also to the 
SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR] directory.

Because the UCX$NOBODY account is really for a different purpose, I do 
not recommend using it for the SAMBA guest account.


This is discussed in the SAMBA for OpenVMS FAQ that is located with the 
SAMBA 2.0.6 distribution.  The SAMBA 2.0.6 distribution is on the 
OpenVMS freeware 5.0 CD-ROM set.  This CD-ROM set is on the web at a 
link from http://www.openvms.compaq.com and other archive collections.

An update to this FAQ has been posted to comp.os.vms and to 
Encompasserve.org.

A search of the VMS conference at http://encompasserve.org should easily 
find it, or http://www.google.com should find the posting on comp.os.vms 
from about January of this year.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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