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[Gerald W. Carter]

> Can shares be public on a server with user level security, i.e., no
> login required whatsoever?

Yes.  See 

	http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw/Patch32/readme.txt

This a readme for a patching system I created.  Should contain the 
information you need though.  Here's the excerpt

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3.  Setting up a GUEST SMB server using Samba
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The file server used at the College of Engineering is a Sun Ultra 170
running Solaris 2.5.1.  The following instructions will provide
information for setting up Samba for guest access.  I will assume some
basic knowledge of setting up Samba and will therefore not go into all
the gory details.
 
More infomation on Samba can be found at
 
        http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba
 
For reasons that are too lengthly to go into here, it is recommended
that the guest SMB server be separate than one providing validated
access to shares.
 
- Following the instructions found with the Samba distribution for
  editing the Makefile in order to compile the software.  You cannot
  use precompiled versions because of a change that will need to be
  made in "source/local.h"
 
- Edit the local.h file in the source directory and search for
       #define GUEST_SESSTUP 0
  Change the defined value to 2.  This will have the effect of
  making smbd validate users with and invalid password as the
  guest account specified in smb.conf.
                                                                              
  - Create your smb.conf as normal  ****ATTENTION**** Be forewarned
  that you should only put files that have been designated as public
  access in the shares you defined.  For shares that require user
  validation, setup a second server.
 
- Install smbd & nmbd binaries and start Samba.
 
Assuming you have a share defined named [temp], you should be able
to perform the following command on an Windows 9x/NT machine
 
     dir \\GUESTSERVER\temp
 
and get some valid output. 

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Hope this helps,
j-