difference between 1.9.18 and 2.0.3

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Fri Jul 7 14:11:05 GMT 2000


On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:31:22 +1000, you wrote:

>When I install Samba 1.9.18 I don't have any problem, but when I use
>Samba 2.0.3 the PC asks me for a password (which I don't know ...).
>In my smb.conf file, I specify "guest ok = yes".
>This happens with Windows NT and Windows 95.

The 2.0.x way is to add to smb.conf
map to guest = bad user

If you want full compatibility with 1.9.x you have o use
security = share
since that was the default of 1.9.x, whereas in 2.0.x the default is
security = user

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