browsing as guest

[Andy Doran]

Steve, thanks for the response. I wasn't thinking in the SMB idiom when
I did this, bad for an MCP - tsk tsk <g>. I've set 'security = server'
and pointed 'password server' at our samba domain master. Things are
working fine now.

Andy.

    "... handing C++ to the average programmer seems roughly 
     comparable to handing a loaded .45 to a chimpanzee." -- Ted Ts'o
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Steve Hsieh wrote:

> If you are not using security=share, you probably want to look at the 'map
> to guest' option...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Andy Doran wrote:
> 
> > hello all, I'm having a problem which I suspect, is with 95, not
> > with Samba. I can't get any 95 machine to get a share list or
> > make any other kind of connection to a samba server when an
> > account for the user it's connecting as doesn't exist; even
> > if i set 'guest only' on a share.
> > 
> > browsing/connecting to shares as guest using smbclient works
> > fine. i've tried every different version of 95 thats been
> > released, and applied the fixes mentioned in docs/Win95.txt.
> > 
> > creating user accounts on this server is not something i 
> > want to do, since there's around a 1000 of them. i would give
> > up and use NIS, but my servers use a mix of DES and MD5
> > encryption, so that's out of the question. can anybody tell 
> > me what i'm doing wrong?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > andy.
> > 
> > ps: can you pls cc:ad at psn.ie since i'm not on this list.
> >     is there a digest version?
> > 
> > 
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