Guest Account settings

[John E. Malmberg]

Tillman, Brian (AGRE) wrote:
> What are the proper settings for the account to be used as the "guest
> account" in the SMB.CONF file?

The critical ones that I know of are:

It must have READ/WRITE access to SAMBA_ROOT:[VAR].

It must have a default directory that it has permission to read and 
write to.

It should not need any additional privileges to my knowledge, and I do 
not think any of the quotas are used.  The password does not matter, and 
I do not think it needs to be enabled for any mode of login.

Depending on the specifics of the SAMBA implementation, the DISUSER 
setting may or may not matter.  It probably does not.

And this is not really a GUEST account, it is used by SAMBA for many 
routine IPC functions.

I would not use the UCX$NOBODY or TCPIP$NOBODY for this purpose, I would 
use a dedicated account.  My suggestion would be SAMBA__GUEST.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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