"map to guest" parameter

[kenneth topp]

Sounds good, except...

Please don't change defaults in a stable series.  -masses on l-k

This cannot correctly apply to samba as it's been getting lots of new
features.  But I would like to simply do: "rpm -Uvh samba" when the next
version comes out, especially when newer versions are stressed as security
patches.  If defaults change, I hope they are stressed in an -Upgrading
Section- of the release notes.  

2cents


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Stephen Waters wrote:

> samba defaults to "never" which the developers believe is a good idea.
> however, i believe the default for NT4 is "Bad Password". would it not
> make more sense to make the default the same as NT4 as most of the other
> options do?
> 
> in our case, we had a user at home with a direct ISDN connection into
> the office. he logs into his computer with a different password than the
> domain passwd here at work. with WINS set up properly, he could use
> "find computer" to find all the computers at the office except the samba
> box. it just wouldn't show itself. so after some experimentation, we
> found the "map to guest" parameter to be at fault.
> 
> default as 'Never': 
> 1) non-domain user cannot see samba
> 2) domain user, wrong passwd cannot see samba
> 3) domain user, correct passwd can see samba, access shares
> 
> 'Bad User':
> 1) non-domain user sees samba, prompted for passwd on share access
> 2) domain user, wrong passwd cannot see samba
> 3) domain user, correct passwd can see samba, access shares
> 
> 'Bad Password':
> 1) non-domain user sees samba, prompted for passwd on share access
> 2) domain user, wrong passwd sees samba, prompted for passwd on share
> access
> 3) domain user, correct passwd sees samba, access shares
> 
> "bad password" seems to be the type that all the windows boxen on the
> network are using b/c our home user can see them all, including our NT4
> servers. so, i would propose that the default be set to "bad password"
> though "never" would be the recommended option for admins that do not
> need samba to look like NT4 server or who don't get repeated phone calls
> and emails about not being able to see the server. :)
> 
> 
> --
> stephen waters
> internal sysadmin
> amicus, inc.
>