Printing from NT4(SP3) --> Samba SOLVED!! (Put into Samba HINTS file!)

Scott D. Webster swebster at carroll.com
Sat Nov 22 23:11:59 GMT 1997


On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Rick Flower wrote:

<SNIP>
> 2) Make sure you've really got a guest account!  I specified the "ftp" account
>    under Solaris 2.5.1 and this was NOT sufficient!  I ended up creating a
>    (not to be really used) guest account and set a bogus password for it to
>    keep looky-loo's out..  Then you set the global option "guest account = "
>    string accordingly.
<SNIP>

	I believe putting "NP" in the password field of /etc/shadow is
actually a more secure way to go.  It makes it so that account can not be
logged into.

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